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KAISERLICHE MARINE / REICHSMARINE / KRIEGSMARINE (GERMANY)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

MW I minelaying barges (1917)

MT 2 1930

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
MW I, 1923- MW1, 1924- Heppens, 10.1930- MT1   379 Neptun, Rostock   5.1.1917 4.1917 surrendered 5.1945, to Soviet Union 2.1946 (Наутафон [Nautafon])
MW II, 1923- MW2, 1924- Mariensiel, 10.1930- MT2   380 Neptun, Rostock   15.3.1917 8.1917 accommodation ship 1.1942

 

Displacement normal, t

563

Displacement full, t

673

Length, m

50.5 wl 53.1 oa

Breadth, m

9.30

Draught, m

2.30

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Marine boilers

Power, h. p.

371

Max speed, kts

9.5

Fuel, t

coal 37
Endurance, nm(kts) 1190(7)

Armament

mines
Complement 47 - 53

Project history: Classified as mine barges. Both ships were used as transports since 1924 and as training minelayers since 1930.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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