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MINE WARFARE SHIPS

TYR minelayer

Tyr 1905

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Tyr   Marinens Hovedverft, Horten, Norway   16/3/1887 1887 // 5/1940 surrendered 5/1945, to Norway

 

Displacement standard, t

270

Displacement full, t

294

Length, m

28.0 wl 31.8 oa

Breadth, m

8.60

Draught, m

2.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

450

Max speed, kts

10.5

Fuel, t

coal 22
Endurance, nm(kts) 750(8)

Armament

1 x 1 - 120/44 EOC FF, 20 mines
Complement 44

Ship project history: Ex-Norwegian gunboat, converted to submarine depot ship in 1910 and to minelayer in 1914. She was captured by Germans 20/4/1940.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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