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NR.1 minesweepers (1918)


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M1 and M4

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Nr.1 (ex-Marie I), 1919- M1     Van der Kuyk & Ree, Rotterdam 10.1915 20.12.1916 10.1918 scuttled 14.5.1940
Nr.2 (ex-Marie II), 1919- M2     Koopman, Dordrecht 2.1917 12.7.1917 12.1918 sunk 13.5.1940
Nr.3 (ex-Anna), 1919- M3     J & A van der Schuyt, Papendrecht 1915 1918 10.1918 scuttled 14.5.1940
Nr.4 (ex-Pauline), 1919- M4     J & A van der Schuyt, Papendrecht 1915 1918 10.1918 scuttled 14.5.1940


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

M1: 238

M2: 205

M3, 4: 230

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

M1: 30.5

M2: 29.7

M3, 4: 29.8

Breadth, m

M1: 6.95

M2: 6.65

M3, 4: 6.42

Draught, m

M1: 2.80

M2: 3.13

M3, 4: 2.50

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

M1, 2: 500

M3, 4: 450

Max speed, kts

M1: 9.5

M2 - 4: 10

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 12.7/90, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

16



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<i>M1</i> and <i>M4</i>
M1 and M4


Project history

Laid down as tugs, but in 1918 during building converted to minesweepers, becoming the first ships of the given type in the Dutch Navy. To the Second World War beginning they were considered become outdated since could struggle only with contact mines.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

M2 was lost 13.5.1940 on non-contact mine; remaining ships were scuttled at Ijmuiden next day. M1, M2 and M4 were salvaged by Germans and commissioned by Kriegsmarine. M1 became hospital ship LAZ46, then tug ZRD5 and BS10; in 1945 she was returned to the Netherlands and commissioned as tug RS21, 23.12.1949 she foundered during a storm at Borkum. M2 was used as hospital ship LAZ47. She foundered during a storm 17.9.1940, again salvaged, repaired and transferred to the private owner as a tug Fairplay X, handed over on demolition at Lübeck in July, 1965. M4 was used by Germans as tug ZRD57, then BS9; in 1945 she was returned to the Netherlands and commissioned as tug RS23, then A847 and Y8262. She was handed over on demolition 10.3.1992.