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LINDORMEN minelayer (1940)


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Lindormen 1952

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Lindormen N39 166 Orlogsværftets, København 10.1939 30.3.1940 11.1940 scuttled 29.8.1943, returned 5.1945, stricken 2.1970


Technical data


Displacement standard, t614
Displacement full, t645
Length, m

53.5

Breadth, m

8.80

Draught, m

2.44

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

13.9

Fuel, t

oil 35

Endurance, nm(kts)663(13.9)
Armament

2 x 1 - 75/52 M.12, 3 x 1 - 20/56 Madsen, 2 x 1 - 8.80, 138 mines

Complement

66



Standard scale images


<i>Lindormen </i>1955
Lindormen 1955
<i>Lindormen</i> 1940
Lindormen 1940


Graphics


<i>Lindormen</i> 1965 <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
Lindormen 1965 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.
<i>Lindormen</i> 1952
Lindormen 1952


Project history

In defence plans of country the big role was assigned to minefields in inshore waters, however on the eve of intrusion of Germany into Denmark Danish Navy had only four minelayers: Lossen, Henrik Gerner (served also as submarine depot ship) and two small Kvintus (ex-Minekran NoV) and Sixtus (ex-Minekran NoVI). One more ship, Lindormen was being built.

Modernizations

1951: - 1 x 1 - 75/55, 3 x 1 - 20/60, 2 x 1 - 8.80; + 3 x 1 - 40/60 Bofors 315, radar

1959: - 1 x 1 - 75/55, 1 x 1 - 40/60

Naval service

Minelayer was scuttled by crew 29.8.1943 at Holmen to avoid capture by Germans. Later she was salvaged and entered German service in 1943. Lindormen became VS1401 (later V1601). Ship was returned to Denmark in May, 1945 and again commissioned as minelayer.