NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
M1 (ex-M48), 1936- Bathurst	1936- A1	370	Neptun, Rostock, Germany		9.9.1916	10.1916 // 1.1922	stricken 12.1946
M2 (ex-M51), 1936- Fournier	1936- A2	386	Seebeck, Geestemünde, Germany		10.9.1916	10.1916 // 1.1922	stricken 4.1937
M3 (ex-M52), 1936- Jorge	1936- A3	387	Seebeck, Geestemünde, Germany		22.11.1916	11.1916 // 1.1922	stricken 8.1946
M4 (ex-M53), 1936- King, 11.1941- Teniente de la Sota	1936- A4	388	Seebeck, Geestemünde, Germany		22.11.1916	12.1916 // 1.1922	stricken 7.1937, torpedo TS Teniente de la Sota 11.1941, stricken 12.1946

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	M1: 486 M2 - 4: 476
Displacement full, t	M1: 513 M2 - 4: 503
Length, m	M1: 56.0 wl 58.3 oa M2 - 4: 55.0 wl 58.2 oa
Breadth, m	M1: 7.33 M2 - 4: 7.30
Draught, m	2.25
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	M1: 1800 M2 - 4: 1890
Max speed, kts	M1: 16.3 M2 - 4: 16.5
Fuel, t	coal 115
Endurance, nm(kts)	2000(14)
Armament	3 x 1 - 76/46 Maxim-Nordenfelt 14pdr 18cwt, 30 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	40

Standard scale images

Project history

In 1921-1922 Argentina has bought in Germany 10 minesweepers. M48, 51-53 concerned to type 1915 and in Argentina Navy received numbers M1-4; and M74, 79, 80, 90, 101, 105 were of type 1916 and some time after purchase were called Meta, Melitta, Margot, Marianne, Margarita, Mecha, but soon received numbers M5-10.

Modernizations

1927, M1; 1929, M4: boilers were converted to oil fuel (115t of oil, 1800hp, 16.5kts, 2000(14)nm)

Naval service

 Fournier was stricken in 1937 and were used as hulk. King was stricken 27.7.1937, but in November, 1941 commissioned again as torpedo drill vessel Teniente de la Sota. Murature in 1938 was re-rated to dispatch vessel, renamed Cormoran, since 1940 on present time she is preserved as museum. Remaining ships in 1940 re-classified to avisos.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.