M 413

Minesweeper

Service Data

In Service: 13 January 1943 to 21 July 1944

Production Data

Ordered:
Builder: N.V. Koninklijke Mij. "De Schelde", Vlissingen
Construction No:
Laid down:
Launched: 26 October 1942
Commissioned: 13 January 1943

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 413 Minesweeper (Minensuchboot) was built in the 1940s by N.V. Koninklijke Mij. "De Schelde" shipyard located in Vlissingen, The Netherlands 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 25. Minensuchflottille during World War II.

Career

13 January 1943
The Minesweeper M 413 is commissioned.

1943
The Minesweeper M 413 becomes operational with the 25. Minensuchflottille.

21 July 1944
The Minesweeper M 413 is sunk after being attacked by Russian aircraft, along with M 20 at 0126 hrs in Narva Bay, off Vainupa.
Position 59� 35' 9N 26� 16' 4E.

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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