OTRA minesweepers

Otra 1940

Name	No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Otra	1950- N34	Nyland, Oslo	1/1939	1939	9/1939	captured by Germany 9/4/1940 (Togo), returned 5/1945, stricken 4/1963
Rauma	1950- N33	Nyland, Oslo	1/1939	1939	1/1940	captured by Germany 9/4/1940 (Kamerun), returned 5/1945, stricken 4/1963

Displacement standard, t

320

Displacement full, t
370

Length, m
51.00 pp 52.1 oa

Breadth, m
7.05

Draught, m
1.83 normal 2.00 max

No of shafts
2

Machinery

VTE, 1 boiler

Power, h. p.
900

Max speed, kts

13.5

Fuel, t

oil

Armament

1 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, sweeps, mines

Complement
25

Ship project history: Unique Norwegian purpose-built minesweepers of WWII, could take mines aboard.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Otra and Rauma were captured in Horten by German troops 9/4/1940, commissioned by Germans as Togo and Kamerun and returned to Norway after war. They were commissioned again in 1947 classified as minelayers.

Otra 1949

Custom Search

ROYAL NORWEGIAN NAVY (NORWAY)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

OTRA minesweepers

Displacement standard, t	320
Displacement full, t	370
Length, m	51.00 pp 52.1 oa
Breadth, m	7.05
Draught, m	1.83 normal 2.00 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	VTE, 1 boiler
Power, h. p.	900
Max speed, kts	13.5
Fuel, t	oil
Armament	1 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, sweeps, mines
Complement	25