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KRIEGSMARINE (GERMANY)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

"A" minelayers

"C"

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
C   626/270 Deschimag, Seebeck // Deutsche Werft, Hamburg 4.5.1939 --- --- cancelled 9.1939

 

Displacement standard, t

5750

Displacement full, t

6380

Length, m

145.0 wl 152.0 oa

Breadth, m

16.2

Draught, m

4.68 normal load 5.42 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Deschimag geared steam turbines, 4 Wagner boilers

Power, h. p.

40000

Max speed, kts

28

Fuel, t

oil 770
Armour, mm mine holds: 20

Armament

4 x 2 - 105/60 SK C/33, 4 x 2 - 37/80 SK C/30, 400 mines
Complement 441

Project history: Offensive minelayer, development of ideas of Bremse and Brummer of WWI era. Only one ship of four ordered under Z-Plan (A and C were ordered in July, 1938, and E and F in May, 1939) was laid down (estimated completion June, 1942) but soon cancelled.

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