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MINE WARFARE SHIPS

GLOMMEN minelayers

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Glommen   Akers, Oslo 1916 1917 1917 captured by Germany 14/4/1940 (Glommen)
Laugen   Akers, Oslo 1916 10/1917 1918 captured by Germany 14/4/1940 (Laugen), returned 5/1945, BU 1948

 

 

Displacement standard, t

335

Displacement full, t

380

Length, m

42.0

Breadth, m

8.50

Draught, m

2.10

No of shafts

1

Machinery

VTE, 1 boiler

Power, h. p.

170

Max speed, kts

9.8-9.9

Fuel, t

coal 21

Armament

2 x 1 - 76/28 Bofors, 120 mines

Complement

35

Ship project history: Coastal minelayers vessels specially created for service in Oslo-fiord.

Modernizations:  None.

Naval service: Glommen and Laugen were captured by German troops 14/4/1940 in Tunsberg, and commissioned by Germans under the same names. Glommen was sunk by British aircraft 20/10/1940 in Trondheim-fjord. Laugen was returned to Norway after war. 

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