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HVIDBJØRNEN (1929-1943)
(In English: n/a)

Offshore Patrol Vessel HVIDBJØRNEN
(Photo: Archives of the Royal Danish Naval Museum)

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Classification

Type:

Offshore Patrol Vessel

Class:

n/a

Other Ships
in Class:

None

Specifications

Built by:

Naval Dockyard, Copenhagen

Design:

n/a

Laid down:

February 29, 1928

Launched:

December 27, 1928

Commissioned:

May 21, 1929

Decommissioned:

August 29, 1943

Pennant Number:

n/a

Int'l Call Sign:

n/a

Displacement:

914 tons

Dimensions:

Length:

Beam:

Draught:

-

63.22 m

9.73 m

5.15 m

Complement:

58 men

Propulsion:

1,800 Hp

Range:

n/a

Armament:

2 ea 87 mm Guns
2 ea 90 cm Search Lights

Speed:

14.5 knots

History

Date:

Military Service:

1929

1st tour as fishery protection vessel to Greenland

August 29, 1943

Scuttled by its crew in the Great Belt

44Read more of the scuttling of the navy here

November 23, 1943

Salvaged by the Germans and towed to Korsør

1944-1945

Service with the German Kriegsmarine as a patrol vessel

December 10, 1952

Named ERNST THÄLMANN and commissioned in the East German Volksmarine as a Command and Training Vessel

1956

Major overhaul and modernization

January 1961

Renamed ALBIN KÖBIS as a newly built frigate was christened her former name

September 30, 1961

Decommissioned from the Volksmarine and used as a lodging vessel for next two years

1963

Partly scrapped in Warnemünde

September 25, 1965
- September 26, 1965

Hull used for target practising and sunk off Rosenort in Eastern Germany

Commanders

Date:

Commanding Officer:

 -

n/a

Notes

None

More Photos

Offshore Patrol Vessel HVIDBJØRNEN
(Photo: Archives of the Royal Danish Naval Museum)

The Offshore Patrol Vessel HVIDBJØRNEN is here seen sinking
in the Great Belt August 29, 1943.
(Photo: Archives of the Royal Danish Naval Museum)

The former Danish Offshore Patrol Vessel HVIDBJØRNEN,
is here seen as the Command and Training Vessel ERNST THÄLMANN
of the East German (DDR) Volksmarine.
(Photo by courtesy of Marinekameradschaft KSS e.V.)

Sources:

&

Da Danmarks Flaade blev sænket, by F. H. Kjølsen, Commander s.g., H. Hagerups Forlag, Copenhagen, 1945

&

Danske Søofficerer 1933-1982, edited by S. E. Pontoppidan and J. Teisen, published by Søe-Lieutenant-Selskabet, Copenhagen, 1984

&

Die andere deutsche Marine, by Hans Mehl Knut Schäfer, Motorbuchverlag Stuttgart, 3rd edition, 2000 (ISBN 3-613-01675-3)

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Vore orlogsskibe fra halvfemserne til nu, by Kay Larsen, Nyt Nordisk Forlag/Arnold Busck, 1932

44You are also referred to the Naval Bibliography