NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Виестурс [Viesturs] (ex-Viesturs), 10.1940- T-298, 7.1941- №57 [No57], 9.1941- №51 [No51], 8.1944- T-298			A C de la Loire, Nantes, France	early 1926	27.5.1926	autumn 1926 // 8.1940	survey vessel 2.1948
Иманта [Imanta] (ex-Imanta]), 10.1940- T-299			A C Augustin-Normand, Le Havre, France	spring 1926	11.8.1926	late 1926 // 8.1940	sunk 1.7.1941

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	265
Displacement full, t	310
Length, m	46.0 pp 48.9 oa
Breadth, m	6.50
Draught, m	1.50
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Normand boilers
Power, h. p.	750
Max speed, kts	14
Fuel, t	coal 28
Endurance, nm(kts)	400(13)
Armament	1 x 1 - 75/35 M1925, 30 mines, mechanical minesweeping  gear
Complement	39

Standard scale images

Project history

Former Latvian Imanta and Viesturs. Purpose-built minesweepers-minelayers designed on the basis of a tug hull. Since joining of Latvia into the USSR 19.8.1940 they were commissioned by Baltic Fleet.

Modernizations

1944, No51: - 1 x 1 - 75/35; + 1 x 1 - 76/52 34K, 1 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 3 x 1 - 12.7/79

Naval service

T-299 was lost 1.7.1941 on German mine W off Saaremaa Island (Northern Baltic).