M 381

Minesweeper

Service Data

In Service: 9 August 1941 to 12 February 1945

Production Data

Ordered:
Builder: Elsflether Werk AG, Elsfleth
Construction No:
Laid down:
Launched: 15 February 1941
Commissioned: 9 August 1941

Technical Data

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
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Operators: Kriegsmarine
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Other: Minesweepers
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History

The M 381 Minesweeper (Minensuchboot) was built in the 1940s by Elsflether Werk AG shipyard located in Elsfleth, 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 22. Minensuchflottille during World War II.

Career

9 August 1941
The Minesweeper M 381 is commissioned.

1941
The Minesweeper M 381 becomes operational with the 22. Minensuchflottille.

12 February 1945
The Minesweeper M 381 is sunk after being attacked by the submarine HMS Venturer.
Position 63� 07N 07� 32E.

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Sources

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 sources