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KRIEGSMARINE (GERMANY)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

LAUGEN minelayers (1917/1941)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Laugen NN05   Akers, Oslo, Norway   1916 1917 // 3.1941 surrendered 5.1945, to Norway (Laugen)
Glommen NKi01   Akers, Oslo, Norway   1916 1917 // 3.1941 sunk 17.11.1944

 

Displacement standard, t

335

Displacement full, t

380

Length, m

41.9 wl 43.3 oa

Breadth, m

8.45

Draught, m

1.89

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 water-tube boiler

Power, h. p.

170

Max speed, kts

9.5

Fuel, t

coal 21

Armament

2 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II, 50 mines
Complement 38

Project history: Former Norwegian coastal minelayers, captured in Tunsberg 14.4.1940 and commissioned by Kriegsmarine as mine transports under own names (since March, 1941 as minelayers), subsequently converted to patrols.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Glommen 26.10.1944 was sunk by British torpedo bomber in Trondheim-fjord. Laugen after war was returned to Norway and BU in 1950.

Glommen

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