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KAISERLICHE MARINE (GERMANY)

CONVERTED MERCHANT SHIPS

auxiliary minelayers of WW I

Kaiser 1914

Deutschland 1914

Prinz Adalbert 1914

Rügen 1915

more than 1000 BRT

Name

Launched // Comm.

Builder

Tonnage, BRT (disp., t)

Dimensions, m

Speed, kts

Engine, Power hp

Armament

Fate

Deutschland 17.2.1909 // 8.1914 Vulcan, Stettin 2847 (4200) 113.8x16.3 16.5 2VTE, 4boilers, 5000 4x1-88/37, 2x1-52/51, mines returned 11.1919
Preussen 3.4.1909 // 8.1914 Vulcan, Stettin 2972 (4200) 113.8x16.3 16.5 2VTE, 4boilers, 5000 4x1-88/37, 2x1-52/51, 420mines returned 8.1914
Hertha 4.1905 // 9.1914 Stettiner Oderwerke 1257 81.9x10.4 16 2VTE, 2boilers, 2600 2x5-37/20, 130mines returned 7.1919
Kaiser 8.4.1905 // 8.1914 Vulcan, Stettin 1916 (1920) 96.3x11.7 20 2turbines, 4boilers, 6000 2x1-88/37, 180mines to United Kingdom 1919
Königin Luise 8.5.1913 // 8.1914 Vulcan, Stettin 2163 (2160) 94.0x12.2 20 2turbines, 2boilers, 6500 2x5-37/20, 180mines sunk 5.8.1914
Odin 8.2.1902 // 9.1914 Stettiner Oderwerke 1177 77.6x10.3 16 2VTE, 2boilers, 2300 2x5-37/20, 130mines returned 1918
Rügen 21.2.1914 // 11.1914 Stettiner Oderwerke 1894 95.2x11.6 16 2VTE, 3boilers, 3200 2x5-37/20, 153mines barrack ship 7.1918
Senta (ex-Duns Law) 1905 // 2.1917 Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle, UK 4077 120.4x14.9 10 1VTE, 2boilers, 4200 2x1-88/37, 200mines returned 12.1918
Wotan (ex-Oswiga) 28.4.1908 // 8.1916 Ch Nav Anversois, Hoboken, Belgium 3390 109.8x14.6 8 1VTE, 3boilers, 1750 320mines returned 4.1917

100 - 1000 BRT

Apollo (1883, 634, 8.1914-10/1914); Primus (1907, 297, 8.1914-12/1914); Prinz Adalbert (1895, 699, 8.1914-11/1918); Prinz Sigismund (1899, 697, 8.1914-12/1918); Prinz Waldemar (1893, 660, 8.1914-9/1914); Silvana (1897, 804, 8.1914-11/1914)

Project history: Merchant vessels converted to minelayers.

Modernizations: None.

 

Naval service: Königin Luise was sunk 5.8.1914 in the Thames mouth by British cruiser Amphion and destroyers.

 

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