S-Boats in the People's Navy (Volksmarine) 1956 - 1990

Missile-S-Boat (Raketenschnellboot) "OSA I" (Projekt 205)

Since 1960 the preparations for the procurement of the Soviet boats of the OSA I-Classe were undertaken. 1962 the first two boats were handed over in  Peenemünde-Nordhafen. 10 more boats were delivered until end 1965.

 The boatsie Boote were integrated into the newly formed RD-Brigade (Missile-S-Boat Brigade) with the 1., 3., and 5. RS-Abteilung )Missile-S-Boat-Division) of four boats each.

Drawing from Mehl/Schäfer: Die andere deutsche Marine

Technical Data

RS of the Type OSA I (Picture: Dieter Flohr)

RS OSA I (Picture: Archives Hans Mehl)

Gun AK 230 (Picture: Karl Scheuch)

 Specials:

Three boats were delivered in 1971 and integrated into the RS-Brigade, three older boats were handed over to the Schoolboats-Division in Parow.

In the early 80ies the first three boats were broken up due to material aging. The official decommissioning of all boats of the class was performed on 3.10.1990. The boats were laid up in Peenemünde Nordhafen. Five boats were sold to Estuvia, three to Latvia, and three to Lithuavia, one boat was broken up.

Whereabouts of the Boats of Projekt 205