Profile drawing of PA-4
1180 t (max)Displacement
62 mLength
16 knSpeed
Not commissionedService status

Wartime history

Capture and service

In the late 1930s, France ordered 18 ships of the British Flower class type, 6 of those to be built 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-4 (ex Poignard) was never commissioned in Kriegsmarine services. It was sunk as a block ship at Nants in august 1944, raised and scrapped in 1946.

Ship data

Technical profile

Dimensions, weapons and machinery.

Dimensions

Displacement
1180 t (max)
Length
62 m
Beam
10 m
Draft
4 m

Armament

Main battery
1 x 10,5 cm
Additional guns
2 x 3,7 cm AA
Additional guns
10 x 2 cm AA

Performance

Machinery and speed
2750 shp, 16 kn

Service record

Construction record

Laid down
Penhöet Saint Nazaire, September 1939
Launched
29.11.1940
Fate
sunk August 1944