In Service: 10 November 1938 to 1972
Ordered:
Builder: Stettiner
Oderwerke AG, Stettin
Construction No: 787
Laid down:
Launched: 16 October 1937
Commissioned: 10 November 1938
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 4 Minesweeper (Minensuchboot) was built in the 1940s
by
Stettiner
Oderwerke AG shipyard located in Stettin, 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, 5. Minensuchflottille
and 6. 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.
10 November 1938
The Minesweeper M 4 is commissioned.
1938
The Minesweeper M 4 served with the following flotilla's 1.
Minensuchflottille, 5. Minensuchflottille and 6. Minensuchflottille.
1945
The Minesweeper M 4 is seized as a prize of war by the USA.
1945
The Minesweeper M 4 serves with the
German
Mine Sweeping Administration (GMSA).
9 October 1947
The Minesweeper M 4 is transferred to France.
7 August 1948
The Minesweeper M 4 is stricken from naval records and used
as the hulk Q 108.
1972
Was still in existence at this time.
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
For a complete list of
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