Gneisenau class Type 138 Hunt Frigate German Navy

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Gneisenau class (Type 138) Frigate
(ex British Hunt-class Destroyer Escorts)

gneisenau type 138 class training school frigate german navy hunt class royal navy fgs raule brommy

Ships:

F 212 FGS Gneisenau (1958-66)
F 217 FGS Raule (1959-67)
F 218 FGS Brommy (1959-65)

Specifications:

Displacement: 1070 tons (standard) / 1450 tons (full load)
Length: 85,3 meters (279 feet 10 inches)
Beam: 9,6 meters (31 ft 6 in) - Type II // 10,16 meters (33 ft 4 in) - Type III
Draft: 2,51 meters (8 ft 3 in) - Type II // 3,51 meters (11 ft 6 in) - Type III
Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h)
Range: 3600 NM (6700 km) - Type II // 2350 NM (4350 km) - Type III
Complement: 164 - Type II // 168 - Type III

Propulsion:
2 x Parsons geared steam turbines / 2 x Admiralty 3-drum boilers
(19000 shp / 14 MW)
2 shafts, 2 propellers

Armament (as built):

3 x twin 4” (101,6 mm) guns / 2 x on Type III

1 x quadruple 40mm AA gun
2 x single 20mm Oerlikon AA guns

2 x 21 inches (533mm) torpedo tubes

4 x depth charge throwers / 3 x depth charge racks - 110 depth charges

Aviation:
none

overhauled, modified and refitted after transfer to German Navy
used as training & school Frigates

F 212 FGS Gneisenau
(ex HMS Oakley II / L 98, F 168 - Hunt class Type II)

Builder: Yarrow Shipbuilding, Scotstoun, Scotland, UK

Royal Navy service:
laid down: August 19, 1940
launched: January 15, 1942
commissioned: May 7, 1942
decommissioned

transferred to West Germany in 1957

German Navy service (1959-66):
modification & complete overhaul
commissioned: October 18, 1958
temporary decommissioned: October 28, 1962
converted
recommissioned: March 5, 1964
decommissioned: June 30, 1966
put in reserve and mothballed in 1968
stricken: September 30, 1972
fate: cannibalized / sold for scrap / scrapped

namesake: Count August Neidhart von Gneisenau (1760-1831) - Prussian Field Marshal

F 217 FGS Raule
(ex HMS Albrighton / L 12, F 112 - Hunt class Type III)

Builder: John Brown Shipbuilding, Clydebank, Scotland, UK

Royal Navy service:
laid down: November 20, 1940
launched: October 11, 1941
commissioned: February 12, 1942
decommissioned

transferred to West Germany

German Navy service (1959-67):
modification & complete overhaul
commissioned: May 14, 1959
temporary decommissioned: May 30, 1962
converted
recommissioned: November 2, 1964
decommissioned: December 20, 1967
stricken: December 31, 1967
converted to a target ship
shot to a wreckage on April 8, 1971
fate: wreckage sold for scrap in 1971 / scrapped

namesake: Benjamin Raule (1634-1707) - shipowner and naval director

F 218 FGS Brommy
(ex HMS Eggesford / L 15, F 15 - Hunt class Type III)

Builder: J. S. White & Co., Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK

Royal Navy service:
laid down: June 23, 1940
launched: September 12, 1942
commissioned: January 21, 1943
decommissioned

transferred to West Germany

German Navy service (1959-64):
modification & complete overhaul
commissioned: May 14, 1959
decommissioned: April 30, 1965
converted to a target ship 1971/72
served as a target for several sorties in the Bay of Biscay
fate: wreckage sold for scrap in 1979 / scrapped

namesake: Rear Admiral Karl Rudolf Brommy (1804-1860)

images

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F 212 FGS Gneisenau

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F 217 FGS Raule

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F 217 FGS Raule

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F 218 FGS Brommy

Royal Navy Service

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HMS Oakley (L 98) - later F 212 FGS Gneisenau

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HMS Albrighton (L 12) - later F 217 FGS Raule

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HMS Eggesford (L 15) - later F 218 FGS Brommy

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