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R301 minesweeping boats (1943 - 1944)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
R301   3620 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder     6.1943 sunk 16.10.1944
R302   3621 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder     6.1943 surrendered 5.1945, to Soviet Union 11.1945 (КТ-1026 [KT-1026])
R303   3622 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder     8.1943 surrendered 5.1945, to Soviet Union 11.1945 (КТ-1027 [KT-1027])
R304   3623 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder     9.1943 sunk 6.9.1944
R305   3624 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder     10.1943 surrendered 5.1945, to Soviet Union 11.1945 (КТ-1008 [KT-1008])
R306   3625 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder     11.1943 sunk 13.12.1943
R307   3626 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder     3.1944 surrendered 5.1945, to Soviet Union 11.1945 (КТ-1028 [KT-1028])
R308   3627 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder     3.1944 surrendered 5.1945, to Soviet Union 11.1945 (КТ-1009 [KT-1009])
R309   3628 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder     4.1944 damaged by wrecking 3.5.1945, repair incomplete
R310   3629 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder     6.1944 surrendered 5.1945, to Soviet Union 11.1945 (КТ-1029 [KT-1029])
R311   3630 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder     7.1944 surrendered 5.1945, to Soviet Union 11.1945 (КТ-1010 [KT-1010])
R312   3631 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder     8.1944 surrendered 5.1945, to Soviet Union 11.1945 (КТ-1011 [KT-1011])
R313   3632 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder   --- --- cancelled 12.1943
R314   3633 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder   --- --- cancelled 12.1943
R315   3634 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder   --- --- cancelled 12.1943
R316   3635 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder   --- --- cancelled 12.1943
R317   3636 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder   --- --- cancelled 12.1943
R318   3637 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder   --- --- cancelled 12.1943
R319   3638 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder   --- --- cancelled 12.1943
R320   3639 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder   --- --- cancelled 12.1943


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

175
Displacement full, t

184
Length, m

36.8 wl 41.0 oa
Breadth, m

6.00
Draught, m

1.80 normal 1.88 deep load
No of shafts

3
Machinery

3 MWM diesels
Power, h. p.

3750
Max speed, kts

23.5
Fuel, t

diesel oil 15.8
Endurance, nm(kts)716(20)
Armament

1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30 or 1 x 1 - 37/69 FlaK M/42, (3 x 2 - 20/65 C/38, 1 x 1 - 20/65 C/38) or (2 x 2 - 20/65 C/38, 1 x 1 - 20/65 C/38) or 3 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 1 - 86 R Ag M42/43 AA RL, 2 - 533 TT, 16 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear, DCR
Electronic equipmentpresumably hydrophone
Complement

38 - 42


Standard scale images


<i>R310</i> 1944
R310 1944


Project history

Motor minesweeping boats, or R-boats (Räumboote) were developed for shallow water areas, but actually became multi-purpose ships for operations in inshore waters; besides the basic purpose, they were used as patrol, anti-submarine and rescue ships. The prototype was created by F.Lürssen on the basis of F type minesweeping boat of WWI period.

All had composite hulls. Usage of minesweeping gear was supposed at heaving to 6 on the Beaufort scale. On R301 class 2 533mm TT were installed, and this series originally signed as GR (Geleit Räumboot), but boats had usual R- designations.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

R301 and R306 were sunk by Allied aircraft. R304 was stricken by Allied mine.