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The ''Patrouillenboot Ausland'' (PA) class patrol ships were a class of vessels commissioned into the ''Kriegsmarine'' (German navy) in the Second World War. The ships were under construction in French shipyards that were seized by the Germans in 1940 at the Fall of France. Work on them continued under German control but progressed slowly, being subject to reluctance, or even sabotage, by the French workforce. Eventually only four were completed. The ships were commissioned in 1943–44 and deployed as escort vessels. Three were bombed and sunk by RAF aircraft in 1944; the fourth was sunk as a block ship at Le Havre later the same year. ==Background== The PA class patrol vessels were originally laid down as part of a 1939 order by the French navy for anti-submarine warfare vessels to a British design, called Flower class corvettes in the Royal Navy. They were adapted from a merchant ship design and were suitable for building at merchant yards. Of the 18 ships ordered, 12 were under construction at British and six at French yards, four of which were at Chantier de St Nazaire-Penhoët. The order was overtaken by events, and none of the ships ordered was completed before the fall of France in June 1940. Saint-Nazaire, with four ships still under construction, fell into German hands, and as the town was in the occupied zone the Germans decided to complete the vessels for use by the German Navy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「PA-class patrol ships (Germany)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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