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KÖRÖS river minelayer (1918/1928)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Körös (ex-Lieselotte, ex-FM4 or FM20)     Tecklenborg, Geestemünde, Germany 1917 23.2.1918 or 9.3.1918 2.1918 or 3.1918 // 1928 surrendered 5.1945, BU 1949


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

170

Displacement full, t

193

Length, m

41.8 wl 43.0 oa

Breadth, m

6.00

Draught, m

1.40 normal 1.68 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 1 Marine boiler

Power, h. p.

600

Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

oil 32

Endurance, nm(kts)650(14)
Armament

2 x 1 - 8.3/66, mines

Complement

35



Standard scale images


<i>Körös</i> 1928
Körös 1928


Project history

Shallow-draught German minesweeper of FM class. Original name was not known, probable FM4 or FM20. After 1918 she was converted to mercantile Liselotte. She was bought by Hungary in 1928, armed at Budapest and as Körös commissioned by Danube flotilla as a minelayer and TS.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

In 1945 Körös surrendered to American troops and broken up in 1949.