PA-class patrol ship (Germany)
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The Patrouillenboot Ausland ("patrol boat abroad") (PA)-class patrol ships were a class of vessels commissioned into the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) in the Second World War.
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Class overview | |
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Name | PA-class patrol ship |
Builders | Chantier de St Nazaire-Penhoët |
Operators | Kriegsmarine |
Planned | 6 |
Completed | 3 |
Cancelled | 2 |
Lost | 3 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Corvette[1] |
Displacement | 925 long tons (940 t; 1,036 short tons)[2] |
Length | 205 ft (62.48 m) o/a[2] |
Beam | 33 ft 11.5 in (10.35 m)[2] |
Draught | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m)[2] |
Installed power | 2,750 ihp (2,050 kW)[2] |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
Range |
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Complement | 85 |
Armament |
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The ships were under construction in French shipyards that were seized by the Germans in 1940 at the Fall of France. Work on them continued under German control but progressed slowly, being subject to reluctance, or even sabotage, by the French workforce. Eventually only four were completed. The ships were commissioned in 1943–44 and deployed as escort vessels. Three were bombed and sunk by Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft in 1944; the fourth was sunk as a block ship at Le Havre later the same year.[3]