M 135 (ship, 1919)

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M 135 p1
Ship data
flag German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
other ship names
  • Hela
  • gazelle
  • M 535
  • Diesna
  • Wienta
Ship type Minesweeper
class Minesweeper 1916
Shipyard Frerichs & Co. , Einswarden
Keel laying 1918
Launch March 15, 1919
Commissioning October 31, 1919
Whereabouts Delivered to the Soviet Union on February 8, 1946
Ship dimensions and crew
length
59.5 m ( Lüa )
56.1 m ( KWL )
width 7.3 m
Draft Max. 2.15 m
displacement Standard: 508 t
Maximum: 550 t
 
crew 50 men
Machine system
machine 2 marine boilers
2 vertical 3-cylinder compound machines
Machine
performance 		1,600 hp (1,177 kW)
Top
speed 		15.0 kn (28 km / h)
propeller 2 three-leaf 1.97 m
Armament

The minesweeper M 135, which was still commissioned by the Imperial Navy, was one of 36 minesweeper- type boats from 1916 that were still used by the Navy during World War II .

Construction and technical data

In 1918 on the shipyard J. Frerichs & Co. in Einswarden at the Unterweser laid the keel boat was there only after the end of the war on March 15, 1919 from the pile and was supported by the on 31 October 1919 the Navy commissioned.

With a length of 56.1 m in the waterline or 59.5 m over all, a width of 7.30 m and a maximum draft of 2.15 m , the boat displaced 508 t standard and a maximum of 550 t. Two marine boilers with coal firing and two standing triple expansion steam engines with a total of 1600 HP enabled a top speed of 15 knots via two shafts and screws . With the bunker supply of 115 t of coal, a cruising speed of 14 knots gave an action radius of 2000 nautical miles . The armament consisted of a 10.5-cm L / 45 C / 06 Sk and a 20-mm L / 65 C / 38 anti-aircraft gun . In 1943 a second 20 mm flak was added.

history

After first years of service as a mine sweeper, the boat was used as a fleet tender from February 5, 1923 under the name Hela . After the new Hela fleet tender, commissioned in 1937, was launched on December 29, 1938 at the Stülcken shipyard in Hamburg, the boat was given the new name Gazelle on January 2, 1939 . On October 1, 1940, the boat was converted back into a minesweeper and was given the designation M 535 . It then served as a mine sweeper until the end of the war. Shortly before the end of the war, she was deployed as an escort ship for the 3rd clearing boat flotilla. When the war ended, it was Allied war booty and was then first in the German mine clearing service used.

On February 8, 1946, it was extradited to the Soviet Union as part of German reparations . There it was used as a residential ship under the name Diesna and from 1951 as Wienta until it was scrapped in 1965.

Web links

literature

  • Erich Gröner : The German warships 1815-1945, Vol. 2: Torpedo boats, destroyers, speed boats, minesweepers, mine clearance boats , Munich, 1983