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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
KSB1		853	Oderwerke, Stettin	1943	---	---	cancelled late 1944
KSB2		854	Oderwerke, Stettin	1943	---	---	cancelled late 1944
KSB3		855/252	Oderwerke, Stettin / Nordseewerke, Emden	1943	---	---	BU incomplete 1945
KSB4		856/253	Oderwerke, Stettin / Nordseewerke, Emden	1943	---	---	BU incomplete 1945
KSB13		401/237	Flenderwerke, Lübeck / Nordseewerke, Emden	1943	1944	---	scuttled incomplete 1946
KSB14		402/238	Flenderwerke, Lübeck / Nordseewerke, Emden	1943	1945	---	BU incomplete 1945
KSB15		403/239	Flenderwerke, Lübeck / Nordseewerke, Emden	1943	---	---	BU incomplete 1945
KSB19		407/243	Flenderwerke, Lübeck / Nordseewerke, Emden	1944	---	---	BU incomplete 1945

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1588
Displacement full, t	1724
Length, m	76.0 wl 83.5 oa
Breadth, m	11.0
Draught, m	2.86 normal 3.20 deep load
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VC with exhaust turbine, 2 water-tube boilers
Power, h. p.	1350
Max speed, kts	12.5
Fuel, t	coal 160
Armament	2 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 2 x 2 - 37/69 FlaK M/42, 4 x 2 - 20/65 C/38, 6 x 1 - 86 R Ag M42/43 AA RL, 6 DC
Complement	127

Standard scale images

Project history

Kriegs-Sperrbrecher (Wartime mine destruction vessel). Unique German wartime project of purpose-built mine destruction vessel. 27 ships were ordered (KSB1 - 27) but only 8 were laid.