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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Neuwerk	8.1940- M4005, 10.1940- M4006	480	Reiherstieg, Hamburg		4.1.1916	3.1916	sold 4.1919, minesweeper 8.1940, sunk 20.4.1942
Bunte Kuh		488	Reiherstieg, Hamburg		15.4.1916	5.1916	sold 6.1919
Seestern		489	Reiherstieg, Hamburg		28.5.1916	6.1916	sunk 2.2.1918
Reiherstieg		490	Reiherstieg, Hamburg		10.7.1916	8.1916	to United Kingdom 7.1920
Dirk von Minden		491	Reiherstieg, Hamburg		26.8.1916	11.1916	sunk 29.11.1917
Max Schinkel		492	Reiherstieg, Hamburg		5.10.1916	12.1916	sunk 22.5.1917
Direktor Schauseil		495	Reiherstieg, Hamburg		1916	10.1916	sunk 16.5.1918
Professor Pagel		496	Reiherstieg, Hamburg		7.9.1916	12.1916	sold 6.1919
Kronprinz Wilhelm		497	Reiherstieg, Hamburg		5.9.1917	10.1917	sold 11.1919
Kronprinz Rupprecht		498	Reiherstieg, Hamburg		1917	--- // 1918	completed as submarine depot ship
Herzog Albrecht, 2.1943- La Grêle	2.1943- M4243	499	Reiherstieg, Hamburg		22.2.1918	4.1918	sold 4.1920, minesweeper 2.1943, scuttled 16.12.1944
Prinz Leopold		500	Reiherstieg, Hamburg		1918	--- // 1918	completed as pilot vessel
Prinz Heinrich		501	Reiherstieg, Hamburg		1918	---	scuttled incomplete 10.1918
Graf Bothmer		502	Reiherstieg, Hamburg		30.8.1918	--- // 6.1919	completed mercantile
Von Kluck		503	Reiherstieg, Hamburg		2.1919	--- // 6.1919	completed mercantile

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement full, t	470
Length, m	36.4 - 36.6
Breadth, m	7.38 - 7.41
Draught, m	3.98
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 1 boiler
Power, h. p.	400
Max speed, kts	10.5
Fuel, t	coal 170
Endurance, nm(kts)	5140(10)
Armament	1 x 1 - 88/27 SK L/30 C/89 or 88/32 SK L/35 C/01 or 88/27 TK L/30 C/08
Complement	22 - 31

Project history

Fishery trawlers, purchased by Navy during building and commissioned as auxiliary patrols.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Seestern was sunk on German mine 2.2.1918 W off Hornsriff. Dirk von Minden was sunk on mine laid by British submarine E51 29.11.1917 W off Terschelling. Max Schinkel was sunk on mine laid by British submarine E51 22.5.1917 NE off Ameland. Direktor Schauseil was mined 16.5.1918 in the North Sea.

Neuwerk was sold to France in 1931, requisitioned by French Navy in 1939 as minesweeper AD142 and sunk 19.6.1940. She was salvaged this year by Germans, commissioned by Kriegsmarine 5.8.1940 as M4005 and mined 20.4.1942 E off Morlaix. Herzog Albrecht was sold to France in 1928 but requisitioned by Kriegsmarine in November, 1941, commissioned 2.2.1943 as minesweeper M4243 and scuttled 16.12.1944 in mouth of Loire.