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LINZ minelayer (1943)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Linz     Danziger Werft / Staalskisvaerft, Odense, Denmark     3.8.1943 surrendered 5.1945, sold mercantile


Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement full, t3374 BRT
Length, m

98.5 wl 104.2 oa

Breadth, m

13.9

Draught, m

6.85

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 MAN diesel

Power, h. p.

4800

Max speed, kts

16

Fuel, tdiesel oil 199
Endurance, nm(kts)5760(15)
Armament2 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 2 x 1 - 37/69 FlaK M/42, 4 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 4 x 2 - 20/65 C/38, 340 mines
Electronic equipmentFuMO 28 radar
Complement212


Standard scale images


<i>Linz</i> 1944
Linz 1944


Project history

Former dry cargo carrier, laid down in Danzig by the order of Norddeutsche Lloyd, launched in 1940 and towed off for completion to Copenhagen, where 27.7.1943 damaged as result of sabotage. 21.8.1943 ship was requisitioned by Kriegsmarine and put on conversion to minelayer.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

On reparations Linz was transferred to United Kingdom and converted to cargo vessel Empire Wansbeck.