NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Albona (ex-RD58, ex-MT130), later Netztender 57			Cantiere Danubius, Porto Rè, Austria-Hungary		20.7.1918	11.1918 // 10.1943	later netlayer, scuttled 31.10.1944
Laurana (ex-RD59, ex-MT131)			Cantiere Danubius, Porto Rè, Austria-Hungary		24.8.1918	11.1918 // 10.1943	mine transport till 9.1944, sunk 20.2.1945
Rovigno (ex-RD60, ex-MT132), later Netztender 56			Cantiere Danubius, Porto Rè, Austria-Hungary		28.9.1918	11.1918 // 10.1943	later netlayer, scuttled 31.10.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	113
Displacement full, t	121
Length, m	31.8
Breadth, m	6.52
Draught, m	1.40
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VC, 1 Yarrow boiler
Power, h. p.	280
Max speed, kts	9
Fuel, t	oil 4
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 76/40 Ansaldo 1917, 6 x 1 - 20/65 M1940, 20 - 34 mines
Complement	19

Project history

Mine transports were built for Austrian fleet but completed after WWI. They were sold to Italian navy in 1920 as minesweepers of RD type. All three were captured by Germans in September 1943 and commissioned by German navy as netlayers / minelayers and mine tender (later also minelayer).

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Netztender 56 and Netztender 57 were scuttled by own crews at Saloniki 31.10.1944. Laurana was sunk by British aircraft 20.2.1945 at Trieste.