For their growing number of small craft, the Reichsmarine and later the Kriegsmarine needed appropriately equipped escort ships for each flotilla, which served the boat crews as accommodation and the boats as fuel, torpedo, mine, ammunition, fresh water and food depot.

Two double-acting MAN four-stroke diesel engines with Vulcan gearbox gave it 12,400 hp and a top speed of 23 knots.

[1] The Adolf Lüderitz was ordered in 1938 at A.G. Neptune and was laid down in Rostock, was launched on 20 February 1939, and was commissioned on 11 June 1940 under the command of Kapitänleutnant Möbes as the escort of the 3rd Schnellboot Flotilla.

On January 17, 1943, the Adolf Lüderitz was attacked off Ålesund by the Norwegian submarine Uredd, but the torpedoes missed their target.

[2] In 1946 the ship was delivered as spoils of war to the Soviet Union, in whose navy it served under the name Pajserd until at least 1964.