F-class escort ship

	F9, 1939
Class overview
Operators	Kriegsmarine
Built	1936–1939
In commission	1936–1945
Completed	10
Lost	4
Retired	6
General characteristics (as built)
Displacement	712 t (701 long tons) (standard)
Length	75.94 m (249 ft 2 in)
Beam	8.80 m (28 ft 10 in)
Draught	3.24 m (10 ft 8 in)
Installed power	2 boilers; 10,000 kW (14,000 shp)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines
Speed	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Complement	121
Armament	2 × single 10.5 cm (4.1 in) guns; 2 × twin 3.7 cm (1.5 in) AA guns; 2 × single 2 cm (0.8 in) AA guns;

The F-class escort ships were a multi-purpose class of 10 fleet escorts (Flottenbegleiter) built for the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) in the 1930s. During the Second World War, their unsatisfactory reliability and poor seakeeping abilities had them soon relegated to second-line duties in the Baltic Sea. Four ships were sunk during the war and the survivors were scrapped afterwards.

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