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M7 1930 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
M5 (ex-M74), 1936- Murature, 1938- Cormoran	1936- A5	625	Vulcan, Bremen, Germany	1917	26.4.1918	6.1918 // 1922	dispatch vessel 1938, museum 1940
M6 (ex-M79), 1936- Pinedo	1936- A6	406	Seebeck, Geestemünde, Germany	1917	15.1.1919	3.1919 // 1922	stricken 7.1951
M7 (ex-M80), 1936- Py	1936- A7	407	Seebeck, Geestemünde, Germany	1917	15.1.1919	4.1919 // 1922	capsized 22.10.1936
M8 (ex-M90), 1936- Seguí	1936- A8	701	Tecklenborg, Geestemünde, Germany	1917	29.12.1917	1.1918 // 1922	stricken 4.1950
M9 (ex-M101), 1936- Thorne	1936- A9	156	Atlaswerke, Bremen, Germany	1917	20.4.1918	6.1918 // 1922	stricken 8.1948
M10 (ex-M105)		516	Reiherstieg, Hamburg, Germany	1917	6.7.1918	10.1918 // 1922	state yacht Golondrina 1925

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	M5 - 7: 515 M8: 505 M9: 525 M10: 508
Displacement full, t	M5 - 7: 553 M8: 548 M9: 564 M10: 550
Length, m	M5: 55.0 wl 58.2 oa M6 - 9: 56.0 wl 59.3 oa M10: 56.1 wl 59.6 oa
Breadth, m	M5, 8, 10: 7.30 M6, 7, 9: 7.40
Draught, m	M5: 2.25 M6, 7: 2.23 M8, 10: 2.15 M9: 2.28
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	M5: 1790 M6, 7, 9, 10: 1850 M8: 1840
Max speed, kts	M5 - 7, 9, 10: 16 M8: 16.5
Fuel, t	M5, 8 - 10: coal 115 M6, 7: coal 120
Endurance, nm(kts)	2000(14)
Armament	3 x 1 - 76/46 Maxim-Nordenfelt 14pdr 18cwt, 30 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	40

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Project history

In 1921-1922 Argentina has bought in Germany 10 minesweepers. M48, 51-53 concerned to type 1915 and in Argentina Navy received numbers M1-4; and M74, 79, 80, 90, 101, 105 were of type 1916 and some time after purchase were called Meta, Melitta, Margot, Marianne, Margarita, Mecha, but soon received numbers M5-10.

Modernizations

1923, M10; 1924, M6; 1927, M8; 1931, M5: boilers were converted to oil fuel (130t of oil, 1850hp, 16.3kts, 3400(10)nm)

Naval service

In 1925 M10 was converted to presidential yacht Golondrina, in 1958 she was BU.     Py was stricken in 1937 and was used as hulk. Murature in 1938 was re-rated to dispatch vessel, renamed Cormoran, since 1940 on present time she is preserved as museum. Remaining ships in 1940 re-classified to avisos.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.