In Service: 14 January 1939 to 18 June 1940
Ordered:
Builder: Stettiner
Oderwerke AG, Stettin
Construction No: 788
Laid down:
Launched: 16 October 1937
Commissioned: 14 January 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 5 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 during World
War II.
14 January 1939
The Minesweeper M 5 is commissioned.
1939
The Minesweeper M 5 becomes operational with the 1. Minensuchflottille.
18 June 1940
The Minesweeper M 5 its sunk after hitting mines at 0339
hrs at Ramsoyfjord.
Position 63� 30N 08� 09E, 28 crew lost.
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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