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KRIEGSMARINE (GERMANY)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

RA201 minesweeping boats (1943)

nearly sister-ship RA101 1943

Names

M5401 - 5404 (ex-RA201 - 204)

Builders

Mjellem & Karlsen, Bergen: M5401-5404

Commissioned

1943: M5401-5404

Losses

none

Transfers

Norway, 1946: M5402 (...)

Soviet Union, 3.1946: M5404 (...)

Discarding

surrendered 5.1945: M5401 - 5404

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

35

Length, m

25.0

Breadth, m

4.50

Draught, m

1.40

No of shafts

 

Machinery

 

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

18 - 22

Project history: Ships of RA series were built in Denmark (RA101-106) and Norway (RA201-204) and represented variants of standard R-boats with Danish or Norwegian diesels and lightened armament.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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