German corvette Hiddensee facts for kids

Hiddensee as a museum ship
Quick facts for kids History
East Germany
Name	Rudolf Egelhoffer
Builder	Petrovsky Shipyard, Leningrad
Laid down	1984
Commissioned	1985
Fate	Transferred to Germany, 1990
Germany
Name	Hiddensee (P6166)
Namesake	Hiddensee
Acquired	1990
Decommissioned	April 1991
Fate	Transferred to United States, November 1991
United States
Name	USNS Hiddensee
Acquired	November 1991
Commissioned	14 February 1992
Decommissioned	18 April 1996
Fate	Museum ship from 14 June 1997
General characteristics
Class and type	Tarantul-class corvette
Displacement	480 long tons (488 t) standard 540 long tons (549 t) full load
Length	56 m (183 ft 9 in)
Beam	10.50 m (34 ft 5 in)
Draught	2.50 m (8 ft 2 in)
Propulsion	COGOG 2 × DR077 12,000 hp (8,948 kW) gas turbines 2 × DM076 4,000 hp (2,983 kW) gas turbines
Speed	42 knots (78 km/h; 48 mph)
Range	1,650 nmi (3,060 km; 1,900 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Endurance	10 days
Complement	50
Armament	1 × 76 mm AK-176 dual purpose main gun 2 × AK-630 30 mm gatling guns 4 × KT-138E P-15 Termit (SS-N-2 Styx) anti-ship missile launchers 1 × quad FAM-14 Strela 2 (SA-N-5) surface-to-air missile launcher 2 × PK-16 chaff launchers

Hiddensee is a former East German Navy corvette, now part of the Battleship Cove site at Fall River, Massachusetts. Originally a Soviet vessel, the corvette was transferred first to the East German Navy, then to the German Navy, and ended her career in the United States.

Ship history

The Tarantul I-class missile corvette was launched in 1984 at the Petrovsky Shipyard in Leningrad, Russia. She was commissioned in 1985 by the East German Volksmarine as Rudolf Egelhofer, but after the reunification of Germany in 1990, she was transferred to the German Navy, and renamed Hiddensee.

After decommissioning in April 1991, she was transferred to the United States Navy. As USNS Hiddensee, the ship was extensively evaluated at the Naval Air Warfare Center at Solomons, Maryland, and used for naval exercises. Following naval budget cuts, the ship was removed from service in April 1996, and joined the Battleship Cove fleet on 14 June 1997.