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MINE WARFARE SHIPS

"1943" type minesweepers

M601 1944

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
M601   Neptun, Rostock   31/8/1944 11/1944 surrendered 5/1945, BU 1948
M602   Neptun, Rostock   21/10/1944 12/1944 surrendered 5/1945, BU 1948
M603   Neptun, Rostock   2/11/1944 12/1944 surrendered 5/1945, BU 1948
M604   Neptun, Rostock   10/11/1944 1/1945 surrendered 5/1945, BU 1948
M605   Neptun, Rostock   13/12/1944 2/1945 surrendered 5/1945, BU 1948
M606   Neptun, Rostock   20/12/1944 3/1945 surrendered 5/1945, sold 6/1948
M607   Neptun, Rostock   30/12/1944 3/1945 surrendered 5/1945, sold 2/1948
M608   Neptun, Rostock   20/1/1945 3/1945 surrendered 5/1945, sold 2/1948
M609   Neptun, Rostock   29/1/1945 3/1945 surrendered 5/1945, scuttled 1947
M610   Neptun, Rostock   27/2/1945 --- // 10/1945 completed for GMSA, sold 2/1948
Seeschlange (ex-M611) M206 Neptun, Rostock   12/3/1945 8/1956 completed for GMSA, to USA 10/1951 (M206), reverted to West Germany 6/1956, accommodation ship 2/1960
M612   Neptun, Rostock   23/3/1945 4/1945 surrendered 5/1945, BU 1948
M613   Neptun, Rostock   1945 --- scuttled incomplete 1945/46
M614   Neptun, Rostock   1945 --- scuttled incomplete 1945/46
M615   Neptun, Rostock   1945 --- scuttled incomplete 1945/46
M616   Neptun, Rostock   1945 --- scuttled incomplete 1945/46
M617   Neptun, Rostock   --- --- BU incomplete
M618   Neptun, Rostock   --- --- BU incomplete
M619   Neptun, Rostock   --- --- BU incomplete
M620   Neptun, Rostock   --- --- BU incomplete
M621   Neptun, Rostock   --- --- BU incomplete
M622   Neptun, Rostock   --- --- BU incomplete
M623   Neptun, Rostock   --- --- BU incomplete
M624   Neptun, Rostock   --- --- BU incomplete
M625   Neptun, Rostock   --- --- BU incomplete
M626   Neptun, Rostock   --- --- BU incomplete
M627   Neptun, Rostock   --- --- BU incomplete
M628   Neptun, Rostock   --- --- BU incomplete
M629   Neptun, Rostock   --- --- BU incomplete
M630   Neptun, Rostock   --- --- BU incomplete
M631   Neptun, Rostock   --- --- BU incomplete
M632   Neptun, Rostock   --- --- BU incomplete
M633   Neptun, Rostock   --- --- BU incomplete
M801   Schichau, Königsberg   9/9/1944 12/1944 surrendered 5/1945, to Italy 7/1949 (Gazzella)
M802   Schichau, Königsberg   29/9/1944 1/1945 sunk 3/4/1945
M803   Schichau, Königsberg   19/10/1944 1/1945 surrendered 5/1945, to Italy 7/1949 (Daino)
M804   Schichau, Königsberg   1/11/1944 1/1945 sunk 11/3/1945
M805   Schichau, Königsberg   9/11/1944 1/1945 sunk 11/3/1945
M806   Schichau, Königsberg   21/11/1944 --- // 1945 completed for GMSA, sold
M807   Schichau, Königsberg   13/1/1945 --- // 1945 completed for Soviet Union
M808   Schichau, Königsberg   1945 --- // 1945 completed for Soviet Union
M809   Schichau, Königsberg   --- --- BU incomplete
M810   Schichau, Königsberg   --- --- BU incomplete
M811   Schichau, Königsberg   --- --- BU incomplete
M812   Schichau, Königsberg   --- --- BU incomplete
M813   Schichau, Königsberg   --- --- BU incomplete
M814   Schichau, Königsberg   --- --- BU incomplete
M815   Schichau, Königsberg   --- --- BU incomplete
M816   Schichau, Königsberg   --- --- BU incomplete

 

Displacement standard, t

582

Displacement full, t

821

Length, m

63.1 wl 67.8 oa

Breadth, m

9.00

Draught, m

2.27 normal 2.68 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

VTE with exhaust turbine, 2 Marine boilers

Power, h. p.

2700

Max speed, kts

17

Fuel, t

coal 136
Endurance, nm(kts) 4000(10)

Armament

2 x 1 - 105/45 SK C/32, 2 x 1 - 37/57 FlaK M/43, 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 - 533 TT, 4 DCT (36), 24 mines, sweeps

Complement

96

Ship project history: Further development of type 1940 adapted under a section building method. On the stocks ships were assembled from seven large sections constructed at plants of several countries. Machinery construction repeated type 1940, but boilers received pure coal burning. Ships could be used as the torpedo training ships and had 2 TT, which unlike type 1940 were installed amidships. 160 ships were ordered, building of sections was begun for 49 (M601-633, 801-816), from them 17 were commissioned, 13 more were on various readiness stages (M807 and 808 were completed late 1945), for remaining part of sections was never completed.

Modernizations: M611 was reverted to West Germany from USA in 1956 and commissioned by navy, as follows:

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Seeschlange (ex-M611) M206 Neptun, Rostock   12/3/1945 8/1956 accommodation ship 2/1960

 

Displacement standard, t

582

Displacement full, t

821

Length, m

62.3 wl 63.1 oa

Breadth, m

9.00

Draught, m

2.60

No of shafts

2

Machinery

VTE with exhaust turbines, 2 Marine boilers

Power, h. p.

2700

Max speed, kts

16.7

Fuel, t

coal 180
Endurance, nm(kts) 4000(10)

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 34, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 6, sweeps

Complement

70

Naval service: M802, M804 and M805 were sunk by Allied aircraft at Kiel 3/4/1945, 11/3/1945 and 11/3/1945 respectively.

 

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