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MINE WARFARE SHIPS

KM-II type minesweeping boats (1935-1942)

Names

Navy minesweeping boats:

¹17 [No17], 11.1944- KT-117

¹25 [No25], 11.1944- KT-821

¹27 [No27], 11.1944- KT-127

¹28 [No28], 11.1944- KT-822

¹29 [No29], 11.1944- KT-29

¹30 [No30], 11.1944- KT-30

¹37 [No37], 11.1944- KT-37

¹47 [No47], 11.1944- KT-137

¹57 [No57], 11.1944- KT-237

¹620 [No620]

Auxiliary Navy boats, reclassified as combatants in 1941:

¹407 [No407]

¹606 [No606] (ex-Ø-6 [Sh-6]), 11.1944- KT-608

¹920 [No920] (ex-AO-1)

¹921 [No921] (ex-ÁÏË-1 [BPL-1])

¹922 [No922] (ex-ÁÏË-2 [BPL-2])

¹923 [No923] (ex-ÏÂÎ-4 [PVO-4])

¹924 [No924] (ex-T-1)

MA-2 (¹602 [No602]), 11.1944- KT-454

ÏÏ-1 [PP-1], 11.1944- KT-810

Board Guard boats transferred to Navy:

K-277, 7.1941- ¹1306 [No1306]

K-278, 7.1941- ¹1307 [No1307]

K-281, 7.1941- ¹1309 [No1309]

K-282, 7.1941- ¹1310 [No1310]

K-283, 7.1941- ¹1318 [No1318]

K-..., 7.1941- ¹1308 [No1308]

Builders

Small river yards: all

Completed

1935 - 1940: K-277, 278, 281 - 283 and one more

1941: No25, 28 - 30

1936/39 // 1941: MA-2, PP-1

1942: No17, 27, 37, 47, 57, 620

1935/40 // 1942: No920 - 924

1935/40 // 1943: No407, 606

Losses

No407 (27.9.1944), No1306 (16.9.1941), No1307 (11.9.1941), No1308 (11.9.1941), No1309 (16.9.1941), No1310 (16.9.1941), No1318 (16.9.1941)

Transfers

none

Discarding

1944: No620, 920 - 924

late 1940s: all survived

 

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

7

Length, m

13.8

Breadth, m

3.1

Draught, m

0.80

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 petrol engine

Power, h. p.

63

Max speed, kts

9

Fuel, t

petrol

Armament

Navy boats: 1 x 1 - 7.6/94, mechanical minesweeping gear

Board Guard boats: 1 x 1 - 7.6/94

Complement 10

Project history: Boats were designed for police service on rivers and lakes on the basis of project bought in Germany, built as Board Guard boats, runabouts and office boats. Unlike a prototype, had wooden hull and one automobile motor. In days of war they were converted to patrol, smoke curtain and minesweeping launches.

Modernizations: 1941, No1306 - 1310, 1318: + mechanical minesweeping gear

1943, No920 - 924: - minesweeping gear

Naval service: No significant events.

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