Profile drawing of Löwe
708 tDisplacement
74,10 mLength
30knSpeed
07.07.1938Service status

Wartime history

Capture and fate

The Gyller was given to the Kriegsmarine in Kristiansand on 11.04.1940. Put into service as Löwe on 20.04.1940 it was reclassified as Torpedofangboot in January 1942. 1945, the ship was given back to Norway where it got its original name. Modified as an escort vessel, the ship was scrapped in 1959.

Ship data

Technical profile

Dimensions, weapons and machinery.

Dimensions

Displacement
708 t
Length
74,10 m
Beam
7,75 m
Draft
2,82 m

Armament

Main battery
2 x 10 cm (1 x 10,5 cm sine 1941)
Additional guns
1 x 4 cm
Additional guns
2 x 2 cm (4 since 1941)
Torpedo tubes
2 x 53,3 cm torpedo tubes
Mines
24 mines

Performance

Machinery and speed
12500 shp, 30kn

Service record

Construction record

Laid down
Marinens Hovedverft. Horten 1937
Launched
07.07.1938
Commissioned
07.07.1938
Fate
scrapped 1959