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FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
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CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS
minelayers of WW I


Ships


Name

Launched // Comm.

Builder

Tonnage, BRT (disp., t)

Dimensions, m

Speed, kts

Engine, Power hp

Armament

Fate

Deutschland 17.2.1909 // 8.1914 Vulcan, Stettin 2847 (4200) 113.8x16.3 16.5 2VTE, 4boilers, 5000 4x1-88/37, 2x1-52/51, mines returned 11.1919
Preussen 3.4.1909 // 8.1914 Vulcan, Stettin 2972 (4200) 113.8x16.3 16.5 2VTE, 4boilers, 5000 4x1-88/37, 2x1-52/51, 420mines returned 8.1914
Hertha 4.1905 // 9.1914 Stettiner Oderwerke 1257 81.9x10.4 16 2VTE, 2boilers, 2600 2x5-37/20, 130mines returned 7.1919
Kaiser 8.4.1905 // 8.1914 Vulcan, Stettin 1916 (1920) 96.3x11.7 20 2turbines, 4boilers, 6000 2x1-88/37, 180mines to United Kingdom 1919
Königin Luise 8.5.1913 // 8.1914 Vulcan, Stettin 2163 (2160) 94.0x12.2 20 2turbines, 2boilers, 6500 2x5-37/20, 180mines sunk 5.8.1914
Odin 8.2.1902 // 9.1914 Stettiner Oderwerke 1177 77.6x10.3 16 2VTE, 2boilers, 2300 2x5-37/20, 130mines returned 1918
Rügen 21.2.1914 // 11.1914 Stettiner Oderwerke 1894 95.2x11.6 16 2VTE, 3boilers, 3200 2x5-37/20, 153mines barrack ship 7.1918
Senta (ex-Duns Law) 1905 // 2.1917 Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle, UK 4077 120.4x14.9 10 1VTE, 2boilers, 4200 2x1-88/37, 200mines returned 12.1918
Wotan (ex-Oswiga) 28.4.1908 // 8.1916 Ch Nav Anversois, Hoboken, Belgium 3390 109.8x14.6 8 1VTE, 3boilers, 1750 320mines returned 4.1917


100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels


Apollo (1883, 634, 8.1914-10/1914); Primus (1907, 297, 8.1914-12/1914); Prinz Adalbert (1895, 699, 8.1914-11/1918); Prinz Sigismund (1899, 697, 8.1914-12/1918); Prinz Waldemar (1893, 660, 8.1914-9/1914); Silvana (1897, 804, 8.1914-11/1914)

Standard scale images


<i>Kaiser </i>1914
Kaiser 1914
<i>Deutschland </i>1914
Deutschland 1914
<i>Prinz Adalbert </i>1914
Prinz Adalbert 1914
<i>Rügen </i>1915 more than 1000 BRT
Rügen 1915 more than 1000 BRT


Project history

Merchant vessels converted to minelayers.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Königin Luise was sunk 5.8.1914 in the Thames mouth by British cruiser Amphion and destroyers.