The Type 139 patrol trawler was a class of vessel used as a training ship by the Federal

German Navy The German Navy (, ) is part of the unified (Federal Defense), the German Armed Forces. The German Navy was originally known as the ''Bundesmarine'' (Federal Navy) from 1956 to 1995, when ''Deutsche Marine'' (German Navy) became the official ...

. Both vessels in the class were originally built for the

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in 1942 as

naval trawler Naval trawlers are vessels built along the lines of a fishing trawler but fitted out for naval purposes; they were widely used during the World War I, First and World War II, Second World Wars. Some, known in the Royal Navy as "Admiralty trawlers ...

History

The trawlers and were launched in 1942 at the G.T. Davie & Sons yard in Lauzon, Quebec, and served in the

anti-submarine warfare Anti-submarine warfare (ASW, or in the older form A/S) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, submarines, or other platforms, to find, track, and deter, damage, or destroy enemy submarines. Such operations ar ...

role to the end of

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. Placed on the postwar disposal list, they were sold for mercantile use. When the Federal German Navy was established in 1956, ''Dochet'' and ''Flint'' were acquired and classified as Type 139 patrol trawlers. ''Dochet'' was named while ''Flint'' became . As operated by Germany, both ships were long overall and

between perpendiculars Length between perpendiculars (often abbreviated as p/p, p.p., pp, LPP, LBP or Length BPP) is the length of a ship along the summer load line from the forward surface of the stem, or main bow perpendicular member, to the after surface of the ster ...

, with a beam of and a draught of . Since the days of World War I, Germany had had a tradition of employing patrol trawlers. The type was classified before 1945 as a Vorpostenboot (literally, "outpost boat"). In the Federal German Navy, ''Eider'' and ''Trave'' were employed as fishery protection vessels and for training with light-caliber guns. Later they were used in radar instruction. After two decades of service in the

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navy, ''Eider'' and ''Trave'' were discarded in the mid-1970s. Both ''Eider'' and ''Trave'' were sold for scrap.

References

* * {{Ship classes of the Deutsche Marine