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PA-1

Korvette 1944  


Captured Flower Class Corvette

Laid down as French Corvette Arquebuse in 1939.


Contruction Data

Laid down:     Penhöet Saint Nazaire, September 1939
Launched:     16.10.1940
Commissioned:     15.04.1944
Fate:     sunk 15.06.1944
Costs:     

Technical Data

Size:     1180 t (max)
Length:     62 m
Beam:     10 m
Draft:     4 m
Armament:     1 x 10,5 cm; 2 x 3,7 cm AA; 10 x 2 cm AA
Performance:     2750 shp, 16 kn

History

In the late 1930s, France ordered 18 ships of the British Flower class type, 6 of those to be build in French shipyards. After the
Invasion of France, those incomplete ships were captured by the Germans and four of them were continued  under German control.


PA-1 , the former Arquebuse , was commissioned on 15.04.1944 and served in the 15th VP-Flotilla until it was sunk on 15.06.1944 by RAF bombers in Le Havre.



 
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