In Service: 19 December 1940 to 21 October 1944
Ordered:
Builder: Stettiner
Oderwerke AG, Stettin
Construction No: 815
Laid down:
Launched: 13 July 1940
Commissioned: 19 December 1940
Type: 1938 Type Minesweeper/Minensuchboot
Class: M 25 Class
Displacement: 713 tons standard 908 tons full load
Length: 71 m
Beam: 9.2 m
Draft: 2.12 m
Propulsion: 2 × Lentz uniform expansion engines
producing up to 3,200 shp
Propellers: 2 × Voith-Schneider
Speed: 18.1 knots
Range: 5,000 nautical miles at 10 knots
Crew: 90 men and officers
Armament:
2 × 10.5 cm L/45
carried 480 rounds
3 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30
carried 6000 rounds
30 mines
Armour 10 mm
Aircraft:
Electronics:
Operators: Kriegsmarine
Variants:
Other: Minesweepers
Articles:
The M 31 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 thirteen watertight
compartments and a double bottom. 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 5. Minensuchflottille and 6. Minensuchflottille
during World War II.
19 December 1940
The Minesweeper M 31 is commissioned.
1940
The Minesweeper M 31 served with the following flotilla's
5. Minensuchflottille and 6. Minensuchflottille.
21 October 1944
The Minesweeper M 31 is sunk after being attacked by Russian
motor torpedo boats, at 0226 hours, near Honningsvaag.
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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