After refit, Mermaid was handed over to the Bundesmarine on 28 May 1959, and was renamed Scharnhorst. Scharnhorst was used as a gunnery training vessel by the Germans, and was refitted with a more modern gun armament and sensors from June 1961 to July 1962, with two automatic French 100 mm naval guns replacing six manually loaded 4 inch guns, with a short range armament of four Bofors L/70 40 mm guns replacing two 40 mm guns. Scharnhorst was removed from the active list in 1980, and was used for damage control training until broken up in 1990. References Publications External links Mermaid at naval-history.net Mermaid at U-boat.net Mermaid - Life on Board by John Murray Black Swan-class sloops Ships built on the River Clyde 1943 ships