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| Name: | Kondor I class |
| Builders: | Peenewerft shipyard |
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 Volksmarine German Navy Cape Verde Navy Estonian Navy Armed Forces of Malta Tunisia Navy |
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File:MSR-lang.png Kondor II |
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Class overview
Name:
Kondor II classBuilders:
Peenewerft shipyardOperators:
Volksmarine German Navy
Indonesian Navy
Latvian Naval Forces
Uruguayan Navy
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Project 89 Kondor Minesweeper is a German Democratic Republic designed warship given the NATO designation of Condor. There were 3 versions, namely, the prototype unit, Project 89.0; the first version, Project 89.1 (NATO designation: Condor I); and the second version, Project 89.2 (NATO designation: Condor II).
Jane's Fighting Ships for 1999-2000 lists five in service with the Tunisian Navy as coastal patrol craft.[1] It also lists one transferred to Cape Verde in 1998. The former Kuhlungsborn was renamed Vigilante and as of 1999-2000 carried the pennant number P 521.[2] Two more, Komet and Meteor were seemingly transferred to Estonia, then paid off.
Three vessels were sold to Malta in 1992. They were given the pennant numbers P29, P30, and P31. They were decommissioned in 2004, and since then P29 and P31 have been scuttled as artificial diving sites.[3][4]
P30 (formerly Ueckermuende), moored in Marsamxett Harbour
Genthin (312) in the Baltic Sea
References[]
- ↑ JFS 1999-2000 p.718
- ↑ JFS 1999-2000 p.102
- ↑ "Patrol Boat P29". Cresta Diving Centre. http://www.scubadiving.com.mt/dive-sites/2-general/54-patrol-boat-p29. Retrieved 2012-09-04.
- ↑ "Malta’s newly scuttled wreck – The ex-Pasewalk P31 Patrol Boat". Oxygene Diving. http://www.oxygenediving.com/malta/p13. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
Further reading[]
- Hans Mehl, Knut Schäfer (2004) (in German). Die Seestreitkräfte der NVA. Stuttgart: Motorbuchverlag. ISBN 3-61302406-3.
- ((East German Navy: German naval forces during the Cold War)), Volksmarine der DDR: Deutsche Seestreitkräfte im Kalten Krieg. 1999. by Friedrich Elchlepp, Walter Jablonsky, Fritz Minow, Manfred Röseberg. 360 pages. Verlag E.S. Mittler & Sohn, Hamburg-Berlin-Bonn. ISBN 3-8132-0587-8 paperback, ISBN 3-8132-0715-3 other. On page 231, "Verbleib der Schiffe und Boote nach Auflösung der VM" ((fate of ships after dissolution of the volksmarine)) ... Uruguay is listed as acquiring three Kondor-II class minesweepers.
- ((Ships and Boats of the East German Navy)), Schiffe und Boote der Volksmarine der DDR, by Manfred Röseberg, ISBN 3-935319-82-7, Ingo Koch Verlag Rostock, 2002
- ((The other German Navy)), Die andere deutsche Marine, by H.Mehl / K.Schäfer, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-613-01675-3
- ((Military Tech series: Minesweepers and Ramming-ships)), Heft Minensuch- und Räumschiffe, Reihe Militärtechnische Hefte, by Bernd Oesterle, 1983, Militärverlag der DDR, Berlin
External links[]
- Projekt 89.1 MSR - Kurz Kondor 1 (German)
- Minensuch- und Räumschiff Projekt 89.1 parow-info.de (German)
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