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MINE WARFARE SHIPS

KLT type minesweeping boats (1940, 1940/1941-1944)

Names

Navy boats:

¹2 [No2], 12.1940- ¹217 [No217], 7.1941- ¹1210 [No1210], 9.1941- ¹713 [No713], 11.1944- KT-713

¹3 [No3], 12.1940- ¹218 [No218], 7.1941- ¹1211 [No1211], 9.1941- ¹714 [No714], 11.1944- KT-714

Auxiliary Navy boats, reclassified as combatants:

¹903 [No903] (ex-ÏÂÎ-9 [PVO-9]), 4.1945- KT-633

¹1503 [No1503] (ex-ÂÐ-1 [VR-1]), 12.1941- ÎÂÐ-12 [OVR-12], 10.1944- KT-843

¹1504 [No1504] (ex-ÂÐ-2 [VR-2]), 9.1941- ¹814 [No814], 11.1944- KT-814

¹1505 [No1505] (ex-ÂÐ-3 [VR-3]), 9.1941- ¹815 [No815], 11.1944- KT-815

¹1506 [No1506] (ex-ÂÐ-4 [VR-4]), 9.1941- ¹715 [No715], 11.1944- KT-715

Builders

Small yards

Completed

1940: No2, 3

1940 // 1941: No1503 - 1506

1940 // 1944: No903

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

late 1940s: all survived

 

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

10.4

Length, m

15.2

Breadth, m

2.60

Draught, m

0.70

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 diesels

Power, h. p.

136

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 560(9.5)

Armament

No2, 3: 1 x 1 - 7.6/94

No903, 1503 - 1506: 1 x 1 - 7.6/94, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement 12

Project history: KLT means "Light type boat". Runabouts and office boats (some were rated as patrols already before war). In days of war they were converted to minesweeping and smoke curtain launches.

Modernizations: 1941, No1210, 1211: + mechanical minesweeping gear.

Naval service: No significant events.

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