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VIESTURS minesweepers (1926 / 1940)


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


<i>T-298</i> 1941
T-298 1941


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).