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Löwe

Torpedoboot 1940 - 1959  Sleipner  Class

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Löwe (former Gyller)

Captured Norwegian Kustjagare Gyller


Contruction Data

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

Technical Data

Size:     708 t
Length:     74,10 m
Beam:     7,75 m
Draft:     2,82 m
Armament:     2 x 10 cm (1 x 10,5 cm sine 1941); 1 x 4 cm;
  2 x 2 cm (4 since 1941); 2 x 53,3 cm torpedo tubes; 24 mines
Performance:     12500 shp, 30kn

History

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 a escort vessel, the ship was scrapped in 1959.


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