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VOLKSMARINE (GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

R5 minesweeping boats (1945/1950)

R5 1950

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
R5 (ex-SK-495, ex-KT-1023, ex-R421) 815, 1956- 7-65 3903 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder, Germany     3.1945 // 5.1950 stricken 1956
R6 (ex-SK-496, ex-KT-1024, ex-R423) 816, 1956- 7-66 3904 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder, Germany     3.1945 // 5.1950 stricken 1956

 

Displacement standard, t

140

Displacement full, t

150

Length, m

36.8 wl 39.4 oa

Breadth, m

5.72

Draught, m

1.50 normal 1.65 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 MWM diesels

Power, h. p.

2800

Max speed, kts

25

Fuel, t

diesel oil 15

Endurance, nm(kts) 1000(15)

Armament

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

Complement

31

Project history: Former Kriegsmarine R401 class minesweeping boats, received by Soviet Union by reparations and transferred to Seepolzei.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

© Ivan Gogin, 2016