NAVYPEDIA

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Castor 1979

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Mira	M1050		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		16.12.1959	11.1960	hulk 12.1973
Castor	M1051		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		12.7.1962	12.1962	stricken 8.1990
Krebs	M1052		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		26.1.1959	7.1959	stricken 10.1973
Orion	M1053		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		10.8.1961	2.1962	stricken 11.1973
Pollux	M1054		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		15.9.1960	4.1961	stricken 5.1992
Sirius	M1055		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		15.3.1961	10.1961	stricken 11.1990
Rigel	M1056		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		2.4.1962	9.1962	stricken 3.1990
Regulus	M1057		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		18.12.1961	6.1962	stricken 9.1990
Mars	M1058		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		1.12.1960	7.1961	stricken 2.1992
Spica	M1059		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		25.5.1960	5.1961	stricken 9.1992
Scorpion	M1060		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		21.5.1963	10.1963	stricken 5.1990
Stier	M1061, 1966- Y849		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		30.10.1958	6.1961	mine clearance diving boat 1966, stricken 3.1995
Schütze	M1062		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		20.5.1958	4.1959	stricken 11.1992
Waage	M1063		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		9.4.1959	3.1962	stricken 6.1992
Deneb	M1064		Schürenstedt, Bardenfleth		11.9.1961	12.1961	stricken 9.1989
Jupiter	M1065		Schürenstedt, Bardenfleth		15.12.1961	5.1961	stricken 9.1989
Pegasus	M1066		Schlichting-Werft, Travemünde		1961	5.1962	stricken 12.1973
Atair	M1067		Schlichting-Werft, Travemünde		1960	9.1961	stricken 6.1988
Algol	M1068		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		23.1.1963	6.1963	hulk 7.1971
Wega	M1069		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		10.10.1962	4.1963	stricken 12.1988
Perseus	M1090		Schlichting-Werft, Travemünde		1960	3.1961	stricken 9.1988
Steinbock	M1091		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		25.8.1958	10.1960	stricken 3.1974
Pluto	M1092		Schürenstedt, Bardenfleth		9.8.1960	12.1960	stricken 7.1987
Neptun	M1093		Schlichting-Werft, Travemünde		1960	9.1960	stricken 2.1990
Widder	M1094		Schürenstedt, Bardenfleth		12.3.1959	9.1960	hulk 7.1989
Herkules	M1095		Schlichting-Werft, Travemünde		1960	12.1960	stricken 8.1987
Fische	M1096		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		14.7.1959	1.1960	stricken 4.1989
Gemma	M1097		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		6.10.1959	5.1960	stricken 12.1987
Capella	M1098		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder		26.2.1960	6.1960	stricken 2.1974
Uranus	M1099		Schürenstedt, Bardenfleth		1960	7.1960	stricken 8.1971

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	241
Displacement full, t	267
Length, m	44.1 wl 47.4 oa
Breadth, m	6.90
Draught, m	2.30
No of shafts	2
Machinery	M1050-1059: 2 Mercedes-Benz diesels M1060-1069, 1090-1099: 2 Maybach diesels
Power, h. p.	M1050-1059: 4500 M1060-1069, 1090-1099: 4760
Max speed, kts	25
Fuel, t	diesel oil 26
Endurance, nm(kts)	1000(18)
Armament	M1050-1056, 1058-1062, 1065, 1068, 1069, 1090-1096, 1098, 1099: 1 x 1 - 40/70 Bofors 315, mechanical, acoustic and magnetic minesweeping gear M1057, 1063, 1064, 1066, 1067, 1097: 2 x 1 - 40/70 Bofors 315
Electronic equipment	TRS-N radar
Complement	31

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Project history

These fast minesweepers of the Types 340/341, designed by Abeking & Rasmussen 1957-59, were built of wood and non-magnetic materials. They resembled the last R-boat type of the Kriegsmarine and at first were designated 'SM-boot 55' They had subsidiary roles as coastal patrol craft and minelayers. As planned the boats were to have had Voith-Schneider propellers, but results with the first prototypes Schütze and Krebs were unsatisfactory and all boats were given two shafts and CP propellers. All boats from M1060 onwards had two Maybach diesels of 4760bhp (3530kW) and were referred to as the Type 341.

Modernizations

early 1960s, Gemma, Pegasus, Waage, Deneb, Regulus, Altair: - 1 x 1 - 40/70; + mechanical, acoustic and magnetic minesweeping gear

1966, Stier: - mechanical, acoustic and magnetic minesweeping gear; + diving equipment

Naval service

No significant events.