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KRIEGSMARINE (GERMANY)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

NOR minelayers (1879/1940)

Nor 1940

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Nor   57 Marinens Hovedverft, Horten, Norway   23.10.1878 1879 // 1940? surrendered 5.1945, to Norway
Brage   58 Marinens Hovedverft, Horten, Norway   1.11.1878 1879 // 1940? surrendered 4.1945, to Norway
Vidar NK31 60 Marinens Hovedverft, Horten, Norway   31.1.1882 1882 // 1940 surrendered 5.1945, to Norway

 

Displacement standard, t

255

Displacement full, t

270

Length, m

29.0

Breadth, m

7.90

Draught, m

2.00

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 boilers

Power, h. p.

230

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

coal 22
Endurance, nm(kts) 600(8)

Armament

1 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 20 mines
Complement 16

Project history: Ex-Norwegian gunboats, converted to minelayers in 1911 - 1913. All were captured by Germans 14.4.1940. It was not correctly known about commissioning of Nor and Brage.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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