In Service: 19 January 1942 to 1945
Ordered:
Builder: Deutsche
Werft AG, Hamburg
Construction No: 290
Laid down:
Launched: 31 May 1941
Commissioned: 19 January 1942
Type: 1935/39 Type Minesweeper/Minensuchboot
Class: M 1 Class
Displacement: 685 tons standard 878 tons full load
Length: 68.4 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 256 Minesweeper (Minensuchboot) was built in the 1940s
by
Deutsche
Werft AG 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 1. Minensuchflottille, 2. Minensuchflottille
and 8. Minensuchflottille during World War II.
And after the surrender of Germany was employed in the
German
Mine Sweeping Administration (GMSA) which was controlled
by the allies.
19 January 1942
The Minesweeper M 256 is commissioned.
1942
The Minesweeper M 256 served with the following flotilla's
1. Minensuchflottille, 2. Minensuchflottille and 8. Minensuchflottille.
15 May 1942
The Minesweeper M 256 is sunk whilst being towed due to being
attacked by Allied aircraft, along with
M26, at 1400 hrs, in Cherbourge outer harbour.
May 1944
The Minesweeper M 256 is refloated and later recommissioned.
1945
The Minesweeper M 256 serves with the
German
Mine Sweeping Administration (GMSA).
29 November 1945
The Minesweeper M 256 is seized as a prize of war by the Russians.
1945
The Minesweeper M 256 is transferred to the Black Sea fleet
as a T 9 class minesweeper.
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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