In Service: 7 September 1939 to 31 May 1944
Ordered:
Builder: HC
Stülcken Sohn, Hamburg
Construction No: 727
Laid down:
Launched: 28 February 1939
Commissioned: 7 September 1939
Type: 1935/39 Type Minesweeper/Minensuchboot
Class: M 1 Class
Displacement: 682 tons standard 874 tons full load
Length: 68.1 m
Beam: 8.7 m
Draft: 2.65 m
Propulsion: 2 × Lentz uniform expansion engines
producing up to 3,200 shp
Propellers: 2
Speed: 18.3 knots
Range: 5,000 nautical miles at 10 knots
Crew: 90 men and officers
Armament:
2 × 10.5 cm L/45
carried 480 rounds
2 × 3.7 cm L/83 SK C/30
carried 3000 rounds
2 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30
carried 4000 rounds
4 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30 after 1942
carried 6000 rounds
30 mines
Armour 10 mm
Aircraft:
Electronics:
Operators: Kriegsmarine
Variants:
Other: Minesweepers
Articles:
The M 13 Minesweeper (Minensuchboot) was built in the 1930s
by
HC
Stülcken Sohn shipyard located in Hamburg, Germany
as a minesweeper or escort vessel for the Kriegsmarine.
Construction was longitudinal and ransverse frame of steel construction,
which was partly welded, this vessel also had twelve watertight
compartments and a double bottom. The superstructure, Bridge
etc was made from light alloys. The propulsion system installed
in these vessels was the two Lentz uniform expansion engines.
And when used as minesweepers the Kabel Fern Raum Gerät
(KFRG) system was employed, which used generators producing
60 V, 20 kW to power the magnetic sweeping gear.
This vessel went on to serve in the 2. Minensuchflottille during World
War II.
7 September 1939
The Minesweeper M 13 is commissioned.
1939
The Minesweeper M 13 becomes operational with the 2. Minensuchflottille.
31 May 1944
The Minesweeper M 13 is sunk whilst deploying mines after
the rudder failed, at 1240 hrs in the Gironde estuary.
German Warships, 1815-1945: Major Surface Vessels.
ISBN-10: 0851775330
German Warships, 1815-1945: U-boats and Mine Warfare Vessels.
ISBN-10: 155750301X
German warships of the Second World War.
ISBN-10: 0668040378
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