In Service: 15 May 1943 to 11 January 1945
Ordered:
Builder: Rickmers
Werft AG, Wesermünde
Construction No:
Laid down:
Launched: 1943
Commissioned: 15 May 1943
Type: 1940 Type Minesweeper/Minensuchboot
Class: M 261 Class
Displacement: 543 tons standard 775 tons full load
Length: 62.3 m
Beam: 8.9 m
Draft: 2.82 m
Propulsion: 2 × vertical 3 cylinder triple expansion
engines producing up to 2,150 shp
Propellers:
Speed: 17.2 knots
Range: 4,000 nautical miles at 10 knots
Crew: 65 men and officers
Armament:
1 × 10.5 cm L/45
carried 120 rounds
1 × 3.7 cm L/83 SK C/30
carried 2000 rounds
2 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30
carried 4000 rounds
7 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30 after 1941
carried 14000 rounds
30 mines
Armour 10 mm
Aircraft:
Electronics:
Operators: Kriegsmarine
Variants:
Other: Minesweepers
Articles:
The M 273 Minesweeper (Minensuchboot) was built in the 1940s
by
Rickmers
Werft AG shipyard located in Wesermünde, Germany
as a minesweeper or escort vessel for the Kriegsmarine.
Construction was transverse frame of steel construction,
which was partly welded, this vessel also had eleven watertight
compartments and a double bottom with hard chine foreship and tug stern. The superstructure, Bridge etc was armored
up to 10 mm in thickness. The propulsion system installed
in these vessels was the two vertical three cylinder triple
expansion engines. And when used as minesweepers the Kabel
Fern Raum Gerat (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 9. Minensuchflottille during World
War II.
15 May 1943
The Minesweeper M 273 is commissioned.
1943
The Minesweeper M 273 becomes operational with the 9. Minensuchflottille.
11 January 1945
The Minesweeper M 273 is sunk after being attacked by British
cruisers HMS Norfolk and HMS Bellona, and the destroyers HMS
Onslow, HMS Orwell and HMS Onslaught, near Egersund.
Position 58° 20N 05°E.
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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