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Vale 1934

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Vale			MV Horten		14.4.1874	1874	captured by Germany 13.5.1940
Uller			MV Horten		21.7.1876	1877	captured by Germany 10.4.1940 (Uller)

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	229
Displacement full, t	?
Length, m	27.3
Breadth, m	7.90
Draught, m	2.20
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VC, 2 boilers
Power, h. p.	200
Max speed, kts	8
Fuel, t	coal 22
Endurance, nm(kts)	600(8)
Armament	1 x 1 - 267/14 Armstrong 19.7-ton MLR No.2, 1 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 2 x 5 - 37/27 Hotchkiss
Complement	38

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Project history

Coastal gunboats of so-called "Elswick" type.

Modernizations

1913, both were converted to minelayers: - 1 x 1 - 267/14; + 1 x 1 - 120/44 Armstrong Y, 50 mines; displacement rose to 238/250t

Naval service

Uller was captured by German troops off Bergen, commissioned by Germans under own name and 2.5.1940 sunk by Norwegian aircraft in the Sogne-fjord. Vale was 13.5.1940 captured by German minesweeper М1 off Bremanger, commissioned by Germans as auxiliary.