Jaguar class fast attack craft
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.JPG) Schnellboot Jaguar class in the early 1960's |
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders: | Lurssen, Bremen-Vegesack |
| Operators: |  German Navy,  Turkish Navy |
| Succeeded by: | Zobel class fast attack craft |
| Subclasses: | Type 141 Seeadler fast attack craft |
| Built: | 1957-1960 |
| In commission: | 1958-76 |
| Completed: | 20 |
| Retired: | 20 |
| Preserved: | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Torpedo boat (fast attack craft) |
| Displacement: | 183.4 tonnes standard, 210 tonnes full load |
| Length: | 42.6 m |
| Beam: | 7.1 m |
| Draught: | 2.3 m |
| Propulsion: |
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| Speed: | 42kts max, 39kts max sustained |
| Range: | 700nms at 35knots |
| Complement: | 39 officers and enlisted |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Navigation radar, Surveillance radar |
| Armament: |
2 Bofors 40mm gun, 3168 rounds of ammunition
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The Type 140 Jaguar class fast attack craft is an evolution of the German torpedo boats (E boats) of World War II. The design was developed by Lürssen and designated Schnellboot 55. The 20 boats that were build for the German Navy were in Service from 1959 to 1976. Then the Jaguar class boats were replaced in service with the Bundesmarine by the Type 148 Tiger class fast attack craft.
The Jaguar class Boats were relatively well suited for high sea action. In NATO strategy it was their duty to intercept landing operations in the Baltic Sea, prevent transfers of ships of the Soviet Union and keep the transatlantic supply lines open through the north-sea.
The Type 141 Seeadler fast attack craft differs from the Type 140 only in the Type of engines.
[edit] List of boats
| NATO pennant number |
German pennant number |
Name | Com- missioned |
Decom- missioned |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P6059 | S1 | Jaguar | November 161957 | June 221973 | sold to private shipyard |
| P6058 | S2 | Iltis | December 191957 | January 311975 | Used as target ship, then to Turkish Navy for cannibalization |
| P6062 | S3 | Wolf | February 121958 | March 211975 | To Turkish Navy as P335 Kalkan |
| P6061 | S4 | Luchs | March 271957 | December 11972 | sold to private company |
| P6060 | S5 | Leopard | May 201958 | May 281973 | sold to private shipyard |
| P6065 | S12 | Löwe | February 51959 | April 251975 | To Turkish Navy as P332 Kilic |
| P6066 | S13 | Fuchs | March 171959 | July 131973 | sold to private shipyard |
| P6067 | S14 | Marder | July 71959 | June 221972 | sold to private shipyard |
| P6082 | S15 | Weihe | October 281959 | July 51972 | To France as target ship, sunk |
| P6083 | S16 | Kranich | December 191959 | November 21973 | Museum ship in Bremerhaven, scrapped 2006 |
| P6085 | S17 | Storch | March 121960 | March 291974 | To Turkish Navy as P331 Tufan |
| P6087 | S18 | Häher | April 51960 | December 151974 | To Turkish Navy as P333 Mizrak |
| P6088 | S19 | Elster | July 81960 | July 191974 | sold to private shipyard |
| P6089 | S20 | Reiher | August 151960 | August 211973 | To Turkish Navy, for cannibalization? |
| P6091 | S21 | Dommel | February 41961 | March 221974 | sold to private shipyard |
| P6090 | S22 | Pinguin | March 281961 | December 141972 | To Turkish Navy as P336 Karayel |
| P6063 | S23 | Tiger | October 151958 | December 201974 | To Turkish Navy as P334 Yildiz |
| P6064 | S24 | Panther | December 121958 | March 11973 | sold to private shipyard |
| P6084 | S29 | Alk | January 141960 | August 61974 | To Turkish Navy, for cannibalization? |
| P6086 | S30 | Pelikan | March 301960 | May 311974 | To Turkish Navy, P330 Firtina |
[edit] References
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Gardiner, Robert (ed.). Conway's all the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995. London: Conway Maritime. ISBN 0851776051. OCLC 34284130. Also published as Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen; Budzbon, Przemysław. Conway's all the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1557501327. OCLC 34267261.
- Schnellboot Typ 140 Jaguar-Klasse @ schnellboot.net
