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KRIEGSMARINE (GERMANY)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

FHR2 river minesweeping boats (1938)

FHR2 1939

Names

FHR2 - 6

Builders

Hitzler, Regensburg: FHR2-6

Commissioned

1938: FHR2-6

Losses

FHR4 (1944)

Transfers

Soviet Union, 10.1944: FHR2, 3, 5, 6

Discarding

none

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

13.5

Length, m

15.0

Breadth, m

3.00

Draught, m

0.90

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 Kämper diesel

Power, h. p.

100

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

diesel oil 1.0

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 7.9/79, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

6

Project history: Medium (Mittlere Räumboot, MR), small (Kleine Räumboot, KR) and river (Fluß-Räumboot, FR) R-boats were minesweeping boats for service on shallow-water and lake-river areas. FHR means Fluß-Hilfs-Räumboot (auxiliary minesweeping boat).

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: All survived boats were captured by Red Army.

 

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