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KRIEGSMARINE (GERMANY)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

KSB1 mine destruction vessels

KSB1

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
KSB1   853 Oderwerke, Stettin 1943 --- --- cancelled late 1944
KSB2   854 Oderwerke, Stettin 1943 --- --- cancelled late 1944
KSB3   855/252 Oderwerke, Stettin / Nordseewerke, Emden 1943 --- --- BU incomplete 1945
KSB4   856/253 Oderwerke, Stettin / Nordseewerke, Emden 1943 --- --- BU incomplete 1945
KSB13   401/237 Flenderwerke, Lübeck / Nordseewerke, Emden 1943 1944 --- scuttled incomplete 1946
KSB14   402/238 Flenderwerke, Lübeck / Nordseewerke, Emden 1943 1945 --- BU incomplete 1945
KSB15   403/239 Flenderwerke, Lübeck / Nordseewerke, Emden 1943 --- --- BU incomplete 1945
KSB19   407/243 Flenderwerke, Lübeck / Nordseewerke, Emden 1944 --- --- BU incomplete 1945

 

Displacement standard, t

1588

Displacement full, t

1724

Length, m

76.0 wl 83.5 oa

Breadth, m

11.0

Draught, m

2.86 normal 3.20 deep load

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VC with exhaust turbine, 2 water-tube boilers

Power, h. p.

1350

Max speed, kts

12.5

Fuel, t

coal 160

Armament

2 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 2 x 2 - 37/69 FlaK M/42, 4 x 2 - 20/65 C/38, 6 x 1 - 86 R Ag M42/43 AA RL, 6 DC

Complement

127

Project history: Kriegs-Sperrbrecher (Wartime mine destruction vessel). Unique German wartime project of purpose-built mine destruction vessel. 27 ships were ordered (KSB1 - 27) but only 8 were laid.

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