Former NVA Units
After the unification of the German Navies, the Eastern German ship classes got Type codes of the Western system. Especially for those that were soon sold afterwards to foreign navies, this process did not strictly follow the previous rules. Sometimes already allocated codes were reused or the previously spared x00 codes were assigned. But the vast majority was categorized in the previously unused 600-699 range, but even here the same Type code is often used more than once. And sometimes, ships of the same class are spread over different Type codes.
| Type | Class | Pennant numbers |
Number | In service | Notes/fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 140 | Parchim I | P6167—6170 | 4 | 1984—1991 | sold to Indonesia |
| 300 | Projekt 89.2 | M2670—2671 | 5 | 1973—1991 | 2 sold to Indonesia, 3 to Uruguay |
| 391 | Projekt 89.1 | BG31—33 | 3 | —1996 | 1 to each Tunisia, Malta, Cape Verde |
| 420 | Parchim | 213—214 222—224 231—233 242—244 |
11 | —1991 | submarine hunters, sold to Indonesia, see also Type 140 |
| 600 | K41—43 | 3 | -1991 | ELINT ships, 2 to Estonia, 1 to Spain | |
| 600 | Wilhelm Pieck | S41 | 1 | —1996 | scrapped in Spain |
| 600 | Project 600? | C112,C661 | 2 | —1991 | Tanker, scrapped? |
| 600 | A441,A114 | 2 | —1991 | salvage vessels, 1 to Uruguayan Navy, 1 scrapped(?) | |
| 600 | Koni I | 142,F225 | 2 | 1986—1991 | Koni I, scrapped? |
| 610 | Rostock | F224 | 1 | 1978—1991 | another Koni I, sold to United Kingdom |
| 620 | Balcom 10 | P6165 | 1 | 1990—1991 | to Bundesgrenzschutz |
| 621 | Tarantul I | 571—575 P6166 |
6 | 1985—1991 | 2 to USN, 3 scrapped, 1 ?? |
| 630 | Grevesmühlen | P6164 | 1 | 1984—1991 | Parchim I, sold to Indonesia |
| 640 | Tangerhütte | M2669 | 1 | 1972—1991 | Project 89.2 minesweeper, ?? |
| 650 | Project 162 | Y890—895 | 6 | 1984—2002 | Swimming base, habitat |
| 660 | assorted tugboats | Y1650—1651 Y1654—1656 ... |
? | ??, two still in service | |
| 660 | assorted salvage vessels | ? | ?? | ?? | |
| 670 | Gustav Königs | Y1652,Y1657 | 2 | —1994 | Tankers, scrapped(?) |
| 680 | Y1653,D44 | 2 | —1991 | Sea mark boats(?), scrapped(?) | |
| 690 | Project 602 | A1430—1434 V816 |
6 | 1983—1991 | Replenishment ships, Scrapped in Belgium(?) |
Read more about this topic: List Of German Navy Ship Classes
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