Minesweeper 1943

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Minesweeper 1943
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Class details War Ensign of Germany (1938–1945) .svg Merchant flag of Germany (1946–1949) .svg Naval Ensign of Germany.svg
Ship type: Minesweeper 1943
Period of service: 1944-1956
Units: 49: M 601 - M 633, M 801 - M 816
Construction costs per unit:
Technical specifications
Length: 67.75 m
Width: 9.0 m
Draft: 2.68 m
Displacement:

Displacement: 821  ts

Drive:
Speed: 17 kn
Range: 4000 nm at 10 kn
Crew: 117 men
Armament upon commissioning:
  • 1 or 2 × 10.5 cm Utof L / 45 without protective shield
  • 2 × 3.7 cm flak
  • 8 × 2 cm flak
  • 2 × torpedo tube 53.3 cm
  • 24 mines

The minesweeper 1943 was a class of minesweeper of the German Navy .

Development and production

In the course of the Second World War the need arose again to develop a new class of minesweeper after the minesweeper in 1935 and the minesweeper in 1940 . The main goal was to further reduce construction time and costs. For this purpose, the boat was combined into seven segments consisting of eight to ten assemblies and these were individually manufactured in suitable factories. The finished segments were then transported to the shipyard by train or ship and joined there. With this method, the shipyard construction time could be reduced to eight weeks. The only shipyards for this type were the Neptun shipyard in Rostock and the Schichau shipyard in Königsberg. The construction of 49 units has started. As in the previous class, the drive system was coal-fired due to the lack of heating oil.

use

Of the 49 units started, 17 were put into service for the Navy. The marking began with M 601 and ended with M 633 for boats built in Rostock. The numbers M 801 to M 816 were assigned to the units built in Königsberg. Ten boats were assigned to the 12th minesweeping flotilla in the Baltic Sea. Before the end of the war, three units were sunk by bombs in the port of Kiel. Most of them went to Great Britain or the USA as booty after the end of the war. From there, some boats went to the German mine clearance service or to private shipping companies. M 611 was the only boat of this class that was taken over into the German Navy.

Some boats were used for civilian purposes. The M 607 and M 608 were converted into passenger ferries and used by Ivers Linie KG in Kiel. M 607 was only sold for scrapping in 2006, i.e. after more than 60 years.

Labelling Commissioning Decommissioning Whereabouts
M 601 Nov 22, 1944 1945 as spoils of war to Great Britain
M 602 Dec 14, 1944 1945 as spoils of war to Great Britain
M 603 December 31, 1944 1945 as spoils of war to Great Britain
M 604 Jan. 18, 1945 1945 as spoils of war to Great Britain
M 605 Feb 3, 1945 1945 as spoils of war to Great Britain
M 606 March 16, 1945 1945 as spoils of war by the USA, then OMGUS, broken up in 1950
M 607 March 16, 1945 2006 German mine clearance service, various shipping companies
M 608 March 20, 1945 1982 German mine clearance service, various shipping companies
M 609 March 27, 1945 1945 as spoils of war to the USA
M 610 Oct. 5, 1945 1945 as spoils of war to the USA
M 611 April 1, 1945 1945 as spoils of war in the USA, from 1956 in the German Navy as a sea snake
M 612 April 1, 1945 1945 as spoils of war to Great Britain
M 613-M 633 Construction started but not completed
M 801 December 3, 1944 1945 as spoils of war to the USA, from 1949 to Italy as Gazella
M 802 Jan. 4, 1945 1945 Sank in Kiel after being hit by a bomb on April 3, 1945
M 803 Jan. 17, 1945 1945 as spoils of war to the USA, from 1949 to Italy as DAINO
M 804 Jan. 23, 1945 1945 Sank in Kiel after being hit by a bomb on March 11, 1945
M 805 Jan. 26, 1945 1945 Sank in Kiel after being hit by a bomb on March 11, 1945
M 806 Completed after the war, then with the German mine clearance service
M 807-M 808 finished after the war
M 809-M 816 Construction started but not completed

Further planning

As part of the standardization of ship classes, the Kriegsmarine introduced a type limit in 1943. The 1943 minesweeper was to be used as a minesweeper in variants as well as tasks as a submarine hunter , as a torpedo carrier and as a torpedo catcher.

literature

  • Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . Volume 2: Torpedo boats, destroyers, speedboats, minesweepers, mine clearance boats . 2nd ext. Edition. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1999, ISBN 3-7637-4801-6 .
  • Guntram Schulze-Wegener : The German Navy Armaments 1942–1945 . Verlag ES Mittler, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0533-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Minesweeper 1943 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) deutschekriegsmarine.de; accessed on September 27, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v minesweeper 1943 ( memento from September 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) minenjagd.de; accessed on September 27, 2015.
  3. ^ Jürgen Rohwer , Gerhard Hümmelchen : Chronicle of the naval war 1939-1945. Minesweeping flotillas. accessed on September 27, 2015.
  4. ↑ faktaomfartyg.se
  5. ↑ Gröner, Volume 2, p. 217
  6. ↑ Schulze-Wegener, p. 175, cf. Gröner, Volume 2, p. 182.