M 60 (ship, 1917)

**M 60** p1
Ship data
flag	German Empire German Empire German Empire Germany Soviet Union; ; ; ;
other ship names	Hecht ; M 560 ; Hille ; Донец ( Doniez )
Ship type	Minesweeper
class	Minesweeper 1916
Shipyard	Seebeck shipyard in Geestemünde
Build number	403
Launch	November 28, 1917
Commissioning	January 15, 1918
Whereabouts	Canceled in 1958
Ship dimensions and crew
length	59.30 m ( Lüa )
width	7.30 m
Draft	Max. 2.20 m
displacement	506 t
crew	40
Machine system
machine	2 × triple expansion steam engines
Machine ; performance	1,750 hp (1,287 kW)
Top ; speed	16 kn (30 km / h)
propeller	2
Armament
	2 × 8.8 cm L / 30 guns
Armament from 1943
	2 × 10.5 cm L / 45 guns

M 60 was a minesweeper of the type minesweeper 1916 of the German Imperial Navy and the Reichsmarine , which served from 1938 in the Kriegsmarine as a Flottentender Hecht , then as a minesweeper M 560 and finally as a clearance boat escort ship Hille , and that finally under the name Donez until 1958 in the Soviet Navy drove.

Construction and technical data

The boat was in 1916 at the Seebeck Shipyard in Geestemünde laid down on and ran there on 28 November 1917 as a minesweeper M 60 from the stack . It entered service on January 15, 1918. The boat had a length of 59.30 m over all (57.80 m in the waterline , 56.10 m between the perpendiculars), was 7.30 m wide and had a draft of 2.20 m . The water displacement was 506 t (standard) and 535 t (maximum). The armament consisted of two 10.5 cm L / 45 guns, and up to 30 mines could be carried. Two triple expansion steam engines with a total of 1750 hp enabled a top speed of 16.0 knots . The bunker supply of 130 tons of coal yielded a range of 2,000 nautical miles at 14 knots cruising speed. The crew numbered 40 men.

history

The boat was used in the mine sweeping service in the last year of the First World War . After the end of the war it was taken over by the Reichsmarine and used primarily for mine clearing. It was then assigned as a test boat to the blocking test command in Kiel and finally decommissioned on September 12, 1927.

When the navy was upgraded, the boat was rebuilt and then put back into service as a fleet tender on August 29, 1938 under the new name Hecht . On October 1, 1940, the boat was given the new number M 560 and was again used as a mine sweeper. On January 21, 1943, the boat again received a new name, Hille , has been converted from 5 February 1943 to Räumbootbegleitschiff and as such on 23 October 1943 in July 1943 in Bergen ( Norway established) 21. Räumbootsflottille put into service .

At the end of the war, the Hille and her flotilla were in Bergen. She was first used with the remaining boats of the 21st Flotilla in the German mine clearance service to clear mines in Norwegian coastal waters, but then awarded to the Soviet Union as spoils of war and handed over to the Soviet Navy on November 17, 1945. In this the boat served under the new name Doniez ( Russian Донец ). The boat was scrapped in 1958.

Footnotes

↑ The Seebeck shipyard built the first six boats of this class, M 57 - M 62 . After the end of the war, she completed four more boats of the class, M 79 - M 82 , in 1919/20 .

Web links

literature

Siegfried Breyer: Minesweeper 1935 - Development and Use , Marine-Arsenal Volume 47, Podzun-Pallas, 2000, ISBN 3-7909-0712-X
Heinz Ciupa: The German warships 1939-1945 . VPM, ISBN 3-8118-1409-5

[1] The Seebeck shipyard built the first six boats of this class, M 57 - M 62 . After the end of the war, she completed four more boats of the class, M 79 - M 82 , in 1919/20 .