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SG15

Schnelles Geleitboot 1943 - 1944  


SG14 (1943)

Laid down as French aviso drageurs de mines Rageot de la Touche


Contruction Data

Laid down:     At. et Chant. de Provence Port de Pouc, 1939
Launched:     02.09.1942
Commissioned:     03.10.1943 in German services
Fate:     sunk 26.05.1944
Costs:     

Technical Data

Size:     917 t (max)
Length:     78,30 m
Beam:     8,70 m
Draft:     2,88 m
Armament:     2 x 10,5cm; 3 x 3,7cm; 10-18 x 2 cm;  1-4 RAg 8,6
Performance:     4000 shp, 20 kn

History

This class of incomplete French Avisos were captured by German troops in November 1942.
SG15 was commissioned on 03.10.1943. First used in the 3rd Escort flotilla, it was assigned to the 10th Torpedoboot Flotilla in January 1944. In May of the same year, the ship was reclassified as a submarine hunter UJ 2229 . It was sunk by the British submarine Universal on 26.05.1944.





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