M 130 (ship, 1918)
 Artillery school boat Fuchs
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M 130 (renamed Fuchs in 1928, M 530 in 1940and M 3800 in 1943) was a minesweeper builtduring the First World War for the Imperial Navy , but onlycompleted and used after the First World War . For decades it was in the service of the Reichsmarine , the Kriegsmarine , the German mine clearance service and the Soviet Navy .
Construction and technical data
The boat was built in 1918 at the Reiherstieg shipyard in Hamburg . The minesweeper 1916 boats were 59.30 m long and 7.30 m wide, had a draft of 2.15 m and displaced a maximum of 630 t . They were armed with two 8.8 cm L / 30 guns. Two triple expansion steam engines with a total of up to 1,850 hp gave them a top speed of 16.5 knots . The boats had an operating range of 2,000 nautical miles at a cruising speed of 14 knots .
Imperial Navy
M 130 was not put into service until after the end of the war on February 13, 1919 and was initially used to clear sea mines that had been laid during the war . In 1928 the Reichsmarine had the ship converted into an artillery tender and an anti-aircraft artillery school boat . On May 12, 1928, the boat, which was renamed Fuchs on the same day, took over the tasks of the old Fuchs tender, which was also decommissioned at the ship artillery school of the Reichsmarine: hauling sea targets , securing the firing area, supplying the firing ships and training naval personnel on ship flak .
Navy
Renamed to M 530 on October 1, 1940 , the boat was used in mine detection and security services for the remainder of World War II . It was given the new number M 3800 in June 1944 and became the leader of the 38th minesweeping flotilla. At the end of 1944 the boat came to the 3rd outpost flotilla (Korvettenkapitän Gottfried Böttger ), which performed guard and escort duties in the central and western Baltic Sea . On 15 January 1945, the boat was in Memel a bomb hit . In the last months of the war it was involved in " Operation Hannibal ", the evacuation of German refugees and troops from East Prussia .
Whereabouts
After the end of the war, the ship was assigned to the German mine clearance service on July 27, 1945 , but a few months later, on November 17, 1945, it was delivered to the Soviet Union together with the M 3600 (ex- M 508 , ex- Delphin , ex- M 108 ) . The Soviet Navy put it into service under the name Минога ( Minoga ) (No. 841). How long and in what functions the boat served there is not known.