The ships of the F120 Köln class of frigates were the first major warships built in Germany after World War II. They were the world's first ships to feature a combined diesel and gas propulsion system.
Specifications
- Length: 109.83 metres
- Beam: 11.02 metres
- Draft: 3.54 metres
- Displacement: 2969 metric tonnes
- Propulsion: combined diesel and gas:
- 2 Brown Boveri & Cie gas turbines, 8832 kilowatts each
- 4 MAN four-stroke diesel engines, 2208 kilowatts each
- 2 propeller shafts driving three-bladed variable pitch propellers of 2.95 metres diameter
- For emergency power, the machinery could be overpowered to 120% for a limited time
- Maximum speed: 24 knots on diesel, 30 knots (56 km/h) on gas, 34 knots (63 km/h) with all engines
- Bunker: 361 cubic meters diesel fuel
- Range: 2,700 nautical miles (5,000 km) at 22 knots (41 km/h), 890 nautical miles (1,650 km) at 29 knots (54 km/h)
- Sensors:
- Navigation radar KH14/9
- Surveillance radar SGR105/04, SGR103/02
- Fire control radar MV2/3Du, M4/1Du, M5/1Du, M9/3Du
- Sonar CWE10 for guiding torpedoes
- Sonar PAE1A for guiding rocket thrower
- Armament:
- 2×100 mm/L55 METL 53 guns
- 2 twin barreled 40 mm/L70 Breda Mod 58 II MDL anti-aircraft guns
- 2 single barreled 40 mm/L70 Bofors Mod 58 anti-aircraft guns
- 4×533 mm torpedo tubes, Mark 44 torpedoes
- 2 quadruple 375 mm anti-submarine rocket thrower
- depth charges, mine-laying capacity
- Complement: 210–238
List of ships
| Pen- nant |
Name | Shipyard | Laid down | Launched | Com- missioned |
Decom- missioned |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F220 | Köln | Stülcken & Sohn | April 15 1961 |
December 17 1982 |
used as hulk in Neustadt | ||
| F221 | Emden | Stülcken & Sohn | April 15 1958 |
March 21 1959 |
October 24 1961 |
June 30 1983 |
Sold to the Turkish Navy as D361 Gemlik, destroyed in a fire |
| F222 | Augsburg | Stülcken & Sohn | October 29 1958 |
August 15 1959 |
April 7 1962 |
March 30 1988 |
Broken up in Hamburg |
| F223 | Karlsruhe | HDW | December 15 1958 |
October 24 1959 |
December 15 1962 |
March 28 1983 |
sold to the Turkish Navy as D360 Gelibolu |
| F224 | Lübeck | Stülcken & Sohn | June 6 1963 |
December 1 1988 |
sold to the Turkish Navy for cannibalization | ||
| F225 | Braunschweig | Stülcken & Sohn | July 28 1960 |
February 3 1962 |
June 16 1964 |
July 4 1989 |
sold as D361 Gemlik to the Turkish Navy, replaced ex-Emden |
All ships were stationed as second frigate squadron in Wilhelmshaven.
See also
- List of frigates
- List of German Federal Navy ships
- List of naval ships of Germany
- List of naval ship classes of Germany
- Lists of ship launches in: 1959, 1962
- Lists of ship commissionings in: 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964
- Lists of ship decommissionings in: 1982, 1983, 1988, 1989
