Adolf Lüderitz

Type:
Schnellboot Depot
Class:
Carl Peters
Builder:
Neptun Werft A.G.
Rostosk, Germany
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
N/A
Launched:
February 20, 1939
Keel Laid:
N/A
Commissioned:
June 11, 1940
Fate:
Captured by Soviets after the war, placed in service with Soviet navy. Removed from
service in 1964.
   
Notes
Sources give different names for the ship while under Soviet control.
Named in honor of Adolf Lüderitz (1834-1886) (Founder of German South West Africa.)


Commanding Officers
From
To
Name
June 11, 1940
Oct. 1941
Kapitänleutnant Willy Möbes
Oct. 1941
Nov. 1943
Korvettenkapitän Walter Erasui
Nov. 1943
May 1945
Kapitänleutnant August Gauland



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