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TYR minelayer (1887 / 1940)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Tyr   67 Marinens Hovedverft, Horten, Norway   16.3.1887 1887 // 5.1940 surrendered 5.1945, to Norway


Technical data


Displacement standard, t270
Displacement full, t294
Length, m

28.0 wl 31.8 oa

Breadth, m

8.60

Draught, m

2.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

450

Max speed, kts

10.5

Fuel, tcoal 22
Endurance, nm(kts)750(8)
Armament1 x 1 - 120/40 EOC FF, 20 mines
Complement44


Standard scale images


<i>Tyr</i> 1905
Tyr 1905


Project history

Ex-Norwegian gunboat, converted to submarine depot ship in 1910 and to minelayer in 1914. She was captured by Germans 20.4.1940.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.