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MINE WARFARE SHIPS

ARBE small minesweepers - minelayers (1931/1941)

Arbe 1941

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Arbe (ex-Малинска [Malinska], ex-MT135)     Danubius, Kraljevica, Yugoslavia 12.1917 1931 1931 // 4.1941 captured by Germany 9.9.1943
Meleda (ex-Мљет [Mljet], ex-MT137)     Danubius, Kraljevica, Yugoslavia 2.1918 1931 1931 // 4.1941 to Yugoslavia 12.1943 (М3 [M3])
Pasman (ex-Мосор [Mosor], ex-MT134)     Danubius, Kraljevica, Yugoslavia 12.1917 1931 1931 // 4.1941 captured by Germany 9.9.1943 (Pasman)
Solta (ex-Мељине [Meljine], ex-MT136)     Danubius, Kraljevica, Yugoslavia 12.1917 1931 1931 // 4.1941 to Yugoslavia 12.1943 (М1 [M1])
Ugliano (ex-Марјан [Marjan], ex-MT133)     Danubius, Kraljevica, Yugoslavia 11.1917 1931 1931 // 4.1941 to Yugoslavia 2.1944 (М2 [M2])

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

as minesweeper: 115

as minelayer: 128

Length, m

29.4 - 30.1

Breadth, m

6.70

Draught, m

1.70

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 1 boiler

Power, h. p.

280

Max speed, kts

11.6

Fuel, t

oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 47/40 Škoda, 1 x 1 - 7.9/92, 20 - 34 mines or mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

27

Project history: Austrian mine transports, laid down in the WWI, completed for Yugoslavia in 1930s. They were captured by Italians in 1941 and commissioned by Regia Marina as minesweepers.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Arbe and Pasman were captured by Germans 9.9.1943 at Sibenik.

 

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