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Name	Launched // Comm.	Builder	Tonnage, BRT (disp., t)	Dimensions, m (length pp)	Speed, kts	Engine, Power hp	Armament	Fate
Barbara (ex-St. Denis)	1908 // ---	John Brown, Clydebank, UK	2435 (1900)	104.5x13.2x3.7	19	3 steam turbines, 2 boilers, 9500		conversion incomplete
Brandenburg (ex-Kita)	1936 // 5.1943	F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France	3894	106.7x15.0x5.7	15	2 geared steam turbines, 3 boilers, 4800	3 x 1 - 105/42, 3 - 37, 18 - 20, 6 DC (100), 260 mines	sunk 21.9.1943
Bulgaria	8.1894 // 3.1942	W. Richardson, Aberdeen, UK	1108	77.8x10.2x5.8	10	VTE, 2 boilers, 1200		sunk 8.10.1943
Cobra	14.1.1926 // 8.1939 - 27.8.1942	Vulcan, Stettin	2131 (2760)	87.4x12.2x3.0	17	2 geared steam turbines, 2 boilers, 3600	2 x 1 - 88/42, 1 - 37, 2 - 20, 150 mines	sunk 27.8.1942
Cyrnos (SG13)	21.3.1929 // 5.1943	Weser, Bremen	2406 (3230)	94.5x12.5x5.8	16.1	2 diesels, 3700	3 x 1 - 105/60, 2 - 37, 16 - 20, mines	scuttled 24.8.1944
Doggerbank (ex-Speybank) (Schiff 53)	4.1926 // 3.1942	Harland & Wolff, Belfast, UK	5154	133.7x16.4x7.8	11	2 diesels, 2300	1 x 1 - 105/42, 2 - 20, 155 mines	sunk 4.3.1943
Elsass (ex-Côte d`Azur)	1930 // 10.1942	F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre, France	2687 (3648)	103.5x13.7x3.7	23.3	2 geared steam turbines, 4 boilers, 14260	2 x 1 - 105/42, 16 - 20, 180 mines	sunk 5.1.1945
Hanonia (Schiff 11, 4.1940- Schiff 111) (ex-Smaland, ex-Drott, ex-Alexey Gorizinov)	10.1900 // 3.1940	Grangemouth, UK	1813	85.1x12.9x5.1	6	VTE, 2 boilers, 1000	144 mines	lost ~1942
Hansestadt Danzig	17.3.1926 // 8.1939	Vulcan, Stettin	2431	90.5wlx11.7x4.5	20	2 diesels, 6400	2 x 1 - 88/42, 2 - 37, 6 - 20, 360 mines	sunk 9.7.1941
Hansestadt Danzig (ex-Peter Wessel)	1937 // 2.1945	Aalborg Vaerft, Denmark	1415	72.6x13.0x4.4	15.5	2 diesels, 2560	2 - 37, 180 mines	surrendered 5.1945, to Norway 1945
Helgoland	6.5.1939 // ---	Lindenau, Memel	2947 (3545)	113.0x13.2x3.5	17	steam turbine-generator, 2 boilers, electric motor, 4400	320 mines	conversion incomplete
Kaiser	8.4.1905 // 9.1939	Vulcan, Stettin	1912 (1920)	96.3x11.7x3.0	16	2 geared steam turbines, 4 boilers, 3000	2 x 1 - 88/42, 1 - 37, 8 - 20, 200 mines	surrendered 5.1945, to Soviet Union 8.1945
Kiebitz (ex-D29, ex-Ramb III)	1938 // 2.1944	Ansaldo, Genoa, Italy	3667 (5182)	123.6x15.0x5.0	19.5	2 diesels, 7200	3 x 1 - 120/45, 1 - 37, 5 - 20, 240 mines	sunk 5.11.1944
Königin Luise	10.4.1934 // 9.1939	Howaldtwerke, Hamburg	2399 (3373)	93.5x12.8x3.6	17	2 diesels, 4500	2 x 1 - 88/42, 1 - 37, 2 - 20, 240 mines	sunk 25.9.1941
Niedersachsen (ex-Acqui, ex-Guyane, ex-Dora)	1934 // 12.1943	Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen, Denmark	1794	86.7x12.6x5.8	13	diesel, 2100	2 x 1 - 105/42, 2 - 69, 12 - 20, 260 mines	sunk 15.2.1944
Ostmark (ex-Côte d`Argent)	1932 // 10.1941	F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre, France	3047 (3648)	103.5x13.7x3.7	23	geared steam turbines, 4 boilers, 13000	2 x 1 - 105/42, 4 - 40, 2 - 37, 4 - 20, 240 mines	sunk 21.4.1945
Passat (ex-Storstad), 11.1940- Storstad	21.10.1925 // 10.1940	Blythswood, Glasgow, UK	8998 (14000)	148.7x19.0x8.9	11	2 diesels, 3100	110 mines	stricken 5.1943
Pommern (ex-Bélain d`Esnambuc)	1939 // 5.1943	Framnes, Sandefjord, Norway	2956	102.7x14.1x4.9	17.5	diesel, 3950	3 x 1 - 105/42, 3 - 37, 16 - 20, 6 DC (100), 204 mines	sunk 5.10.1943
Preussen	3.1926 // 9.1939	Oderwerke, Stettin	2529	93.6x11.7x	16	2 diesels, 6400	2 x 1 - 88/42, 400 mines	sunk 9.7.1941
Roland (A)	16.3.1927 // 8.1939	Tecklenborg, Wesermünde	2436	90.8x13.0x3.4	18	2 geared steam turbines, 2 boilers, 4850	2 x 1 - 88/42, 1 - 37, 2 - 20, 233 mines	sunk 21.4.1944
Romania	1927 // 11.1943	A C de la Loire, St. Nazaire, France	3152	108.7x12.7x5.5	18	2 VTE, 5 boilers, 7200	4 - 20, 80 mines	sunk 11.5.1944
Schwerin	15.4.1926 // 8.1940	Schichau, Elbing	3133	107.2x18.0x4.2	18	2 VTE, 4 boilers, 4400	2 x 1 - 88/42, 6 - 20, 280 mines	sunk 20.2.1944
Skagerrak (ex-Skagerrak I)	1939 // 8.1940	Aalborg Vaerft, Denmark	1281	70.7x11.6x4.0	17	2 diesels, 5000	2 - 37, 4 - 20, 118 mines	target 20.8.1942
Stralsund (ex-Deutschland)	17.2.1909 // 8.1940	Vulcan, Stettin	2972 (4200)	113.8x16.3x4.90	16.5	2 VTE, 4 boilers, 5000	2 x 1 - 88/42, 4 x 1 - 88/40, 400 mines	stricken 11.1940
Tannenberg	16.3.1935 // 9.1939	Odewerke, Stettin	5504	129.6x15.5x7.6	20	2 geared steam turbines, 2 boilers, 12000	3 x 1 - 149/42, 4 - 37, 6 - 20, 460 mines	sunk 9.7.1941
Ulm (Schiff 11) (ex-Rapide)	11.1937 // 3.1940	Danziger Werft	3071	102.5x13.9x6.4	16	diesel, 3950	1 x 1 - 105/42, 1 - 37, 4 - 20, 482 mines	sunk 25.8.1942
Versailles	1919 // 3.1941	F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre, France	2156	95.0x11.0x3.2	17	2 geared steam turbines, 4 boilers, 15000	2 - 20, 111 mines	stricken 1.1942
Wullenwever (Schiff 50) (ex-Rouen)	1912 // 3.1941	F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre, France	1882	93.1x10.5x5.0	22	3 steam turbines, 4 boilers, 9000	4 - 20, 125 mines	surrendered 5.1945, to France 1945
Zeus (ex-D12, ex-Francesco Morosini)	1928 // 9.1943	STT, Trieste, Italy	2423	89.0x12.7x5.0	14	2 diesels, 4200	2 x 1 - 120/45, 4 - 37, 19 - 20, 240 mines	sunk 30.10.1944

100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels

Adjutant (ex-Pol IX) (1937, 354, 20 mines, 5.1941 - 1.7.1941), Alula (12/1943 - M1221, 1944 - GA77) (ex-G23, ex-Sekijo Maru) (1912, 430 t, 2 - 76/40, 30 mines, 9.1943 - 31.10.1944), Dietrich von Bern (ex-D24, ex-Mazara) (1934, 984, 2 - 76/40, mines, 4.1944 - 13.8.1944), Gallipoli (12/1943 - M1222, 1944 - GA79) (ex-G31, ex-Hakata Maru No8) (1911, 400 t, 2 - 76/40, 30 mines, 9.1943 - 31.10.1944), Juminda (ex-Elbano Gasperi) (1928, 742, 62 mines, 9.1943 - 23.10.1943), La France (1909, 699, 137 mines, 7.1940 - 28.12.1944), Natter (V1604, later V1710, later UJ1121) (ex-Casoar) (1935, 581, 1 - 75/32, 9.1940 - 5.1945), Oldenburg (ex-Dwarsläufer, ex-Garigliano) (1934, 1141 t, 145 mines, 2.1944 - 25.4.1945), Otranto (12/1943 - M1223, 1944 - GA78) (ex-G36, ex-Suniya Maru, ex-Mariveles) (1911, 385 t, 2 - 76/40, 30 mines, 9.1943 - 31.10.1944), San Giorgio (G106) (1914, 364, 18 mines, 10.1943 - 12.2.1944), Schildkröte (ex-Courdannes, ex-Georges Et Henri, ex-Andre Constant, ex-Pollux) (1931, 240, , 67 mines, 6.1944 - 5.1945), Vallelunga (1924, 1071 t, 53 mines, 3.1944 - 28.5.1944), Westmark (ex-Panigaglia) (1923, 9.1944 - 29.4.1945)

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Project history

Merchant vessels converted for minelaying.

Modernizations

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Naval service

Brandenburg was sunk by British submarine Unseen, Bulgaria by Unruly, Niedersachsen by Upstart, Ulm by destroyers Marne, Martin and Onslaught. Cobra and Kiebitz were bombed by American aircraft. Doggerbank was torpedoed by German submarine U43. Elsass was stricken by German mine. Hansestadt Danzig and Preussen, Tannenberg were sunk by Swedish mines. Königin Luise and Roland were sunk by Soviet mines. Ostmark, Schwerin, Zeus were sunk by British aircraft. Pommern was sunk by Italian mine. Romania was sunk by Soviet aircraft.