MINESWEEPERS 40
(Minensuchboote 40)
1940 type minesweeper.
The 1940 type minesweepers reverted to coal-firing due to oil shortage in the German Navy particularly after the invasion of the Soviet Union.
The ships of this class were slightly smaller than their predecessors displacing a maximum of just over 770 tons.
Twelve of them were fitted with two single torpedo tubes on the forecastle deck for training purposes.
They were also less expensive and a total of 131 units were commissioned.
TECHNICAL DATA
Displacement: Standard 640 mt, full load 775 mt.
Dimensions: Waterline length 57.6 m, overall length 62.3 m, beam 8.9 m, maximum draft 2.65 m.
Armament: 1 x 10.5cm/L45, 1 x 3.7cm/L83, up to 6 x 2cm.
Propulsion plant: 2 Marine boilers, 2 expansion engines, 2,400 hp.
Speed: 17 knots.
Endurance: 4,000 nm at 10 knots.
Coal capacity: 162 mt.
Crew: 74.
| M-boats 40 |
| Name |
Builder |
Launched |
Commd. |
Fate |
| M261 |
Atlas Werke, Bremen |
10.04.1942 |
10.09.1942 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M262 |
Atlas Werke, Bremen |
25.06.1942 |
30.12.1942 |
Scuttled 25.08.1944
|
| M263 |
Atlas Werke, Bremen |
17.12.1942 |
18.05.1943 |
Sunk 06.08.1944 |
| M264 |
Atlas Werke, Bremen |
19.05.1943 |
21.09.1943 |
Sunk 18.07.1944 |
| M265 |
Atlas Werke, Bremen |
21.09.1943 |
15.01.1944 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M266 |
Atlas Werke, Bremen |
18.03.1944 |
15.08.1944 |
Sunk 11.03.1945 |
| M267 |
Atlas Werke, Bremen |
13.06.1944 |
08.03.1945 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M268-270 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
| M271 |
Rickmers Werft, Bremerhaven |
08.07.1942 |
30.01.1943 |
Bombed in Pauillac
Gironde estuary 05.08.1944 |
| M272 |
Rickmers Werft, Bremerhaven |
16.09.1942 |
26.03.1943 |
Bombed in Gironde estuary 22.08.1944
Raised. To Britain 1945
To Norway 1947 |
| M273 |
Rickmers Werft, Bremerhaven |
1943 |
15.05.1943 |
Sunk 12.01.1945 |
| M274 |
Rickmers Werft, Bremerhaven |
1943 |
12.06.1943 |
Scuttled 04.09.1944 |
| M275 |
Rickmers Werft, Bremerhaven |
25.05.1943 |
04.09.1943 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M276 |
Rickmers Werft, Bremerhaven |
17.08.1943 |
30.10.1943 |
Scuttled 04.09.1944 |
| M277 |
Rickmers Werft, Bremerhaven |
25.11.1943 |
05.02.1944 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M278 |
Rickmers Werft, Bremerhaven |
25.01.1944 |
20.04.1944 |
To USA 1945 |
| M279 |
Rickmers Werft, Bremerhaven |
04.07.1944 |
21.10.1944 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M280 |
Rickmers Werft, Bremerhaven |
1944 |
- |
Scrapped 1945 |
| M281-290 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
| M291 |
Lindenau, Memel |
27.03.1943 |
05.08.1943 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M292 |
Lindenau, Memel |
19.06.1943 |
24.11.1943 |
Bombed 21.08.1944 |
| M293 |
Lindenau, Memel |
1943 |
26.04.1944 |
Sunk in Kattegat 02.05.1945 |
| M294 |
Lindenau, Memel |
04.03.1944 |
28.08.1944 |
To USA 1945 |
| M295 |
Lindenau, Memel |
1944 |
- |
Scuttled incomplete 1945 |
| M296 |
Lindenau, Memel |
1944 |
- |
Destroyed 23.03.1945 |
| M297 |
Lindenau, Memel |
1944 |
- |
Scuttled 1945 |
| M298-300 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
| M301 |
Unterweser, Bremerhaven |
09.04.1941 |
11.10.1941 |
Sunk 04.05.1945 |
| M302 |
Unterweser, Bremerhaven |
26.07.1941 |
18.04.1942 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M303 |
Unterweser, Bremerhaven |
29.12.1941 |
05.09.1942 |
Torpedoed near Kiberg
11.10.1944 |
| M304 |
Unterweser, Bremerhaven |
30.04.1942 |
17.11.1942 |
Scuttled 25.08.1944 |
| M305 |
Unterweser, Bremerhaven |
20.10.1942 |
15.02.1943 |
Foundered 17.01.1945 |
| M306 |
Unterweser, Bremerhaven |
19.12.1942 |
04.05.1943 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M307 |
Unterweser, Bremerhaven |
16.06.1943 |
11.10.1943 |
Sunk 21.07.1944 |
| M308-320 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
| M321 |
Oderwerke, Stettin |
29.03.1941 |
19.09.1941 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M322 |
Oderwerke, Stettin |
31.05.1941 |
06.12.1941 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M323 |
Oderwerke, Stettin |
09.08.1941 |
11.06.1942 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M324 |
Oderwerke, Stettin |
20.09.1941 |
28.11.1942 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M325 |
Oderwerke, Stettin |
31.10.1942 |
18.05.1943 |
Bombed in Pauillac
Gironde estuary 05.08.1944 |
| M326 |
Oderwerke, Stettin |
30.01.1943 |
23.10.1943 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M327 |
Oderwerke, Stettin |
12.06.1943 |
04.03.1944 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M328 |
Oderwerke, Stettin |
12.06.1943 |
18.08.1943 |
To USA 1945 |
| M329 |
Lübecker Maschinenbau |
27.05.1943 |
24.03.1944 |
Sunk 30.03.1945 |
| M330 |
Lübecker Maschinenbau |
07.02.1944 |
21.10.1944 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M331-340 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
| M341 |
Neptun Werft, Rostock |
10.06.1941 |
19.04.1942 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M342 |
Neptun Werft, Rostock |
11.06.1941 |
07.06.1942 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M343 |
Neptun Werft, Rostock |
06.12.1941 |
20.09.1942 |
Sunk in English Channel
14.06.1944 |
| M344 |
Neptun Werft, Rostock |
13.12.1941 |
14.12.1942 |
Sunk 23.08.1944 |
| M345 |
Neptun Werft, Rostock |
27.06.1942 |
24.01.1943 |
Sunk 18.05.1943 |
| M346 |
Neptun Werft, Rostock |
27.06.1942 |
18.04.1943 |
Torpedoed in Northern waters
17.07.1943 |
| M347 |
Neptun Werft, Rostock |
07.11.1942 |
04.07.1943 |
Torpedoed in North Sea
25.08.1944 |
| M348 |
Neptun Werft, Rostock |
07.11.1942 |
19.09.1943 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M349-360 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
| M361 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
05.03.1941 |
24.07.1942 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M362 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
01.04.1941 |
26.10.1942 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M363 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
31.05.1941 |
05.01.1943 |
Sunk 25.08.1944 |
| M364 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
09.08.1941 |
04.03.1943 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M365 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
25.07.1942 |
20.04.1943 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M366 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
05.09.1942 |
11.06.1943 |
Bombed off Noirmoutier
08.08.1944 |
| M367 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
23.12.1942 |
05.07.1943 |
Bombed off Noirmoutier
08.08.1944 |
| M368 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
15.02.1943 |
14.08.1943 |
Collision with U-2328
15.04.1945 |
| M369 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
18.06.1943 |
21.09.1943 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M370 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
17.07.1943 |
03.11.1943 |
Bombed 12.08.1944 |
| M371 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
31.07.1943 |
15.12.1943 |
To USA 1945 |
| M372 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
25.09.1943 |
02.02.1944 |
Sunk 12.05.1944 |
| M373 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
30.11.1943 |
15.05.1944 |
To USA 1945 |
| M374 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
18.12.1943 |
27.06.1944 |
To USA 1945 |
| M375 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
10.03.1944 |
25.07.1944 |
To USA 1945 |
| M376 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
19.04.1944 |
23.08.1944 |
Bombed 11.04.1945 |
| M377 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
27.06.1944 |
27.10.1944 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M378 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
??.??.1944 |
- |
Scrapped 01.04.1945 |
| M379 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
- |
- |
Destroyed on slip 1945 |
| M380 |
Schichau, Königsberg |
- |
- |
Destroyed on slip 1945 |
| M381 |
Elsflether Werft |
15.02.1941 |
09.08.1941 |
Torpedoed 12.02.1945 |
| M382 |
Elsflether Werft |
28.06.1941 |
20.12.1941 |
Sunk 31.01.1945 |
| M383 |
Elsflether Werft |
22.11.1941 |
20.06.1942 |
Sunk in North Sea
13.08.1944 |
| M384 |
Elsflether Werft |
12.09.1942 |
19.12.1942 |
Scuttled in Saint Nazaire
11.08.1944 |
| M385 |
Elsflether Werft |
??.??.1943 |
17.05.1943 |
Beached in Atlantic Coast
15.08.1944 |
| M386 |
Elsflether Werft |
01.07.1943 |
09.10.1943 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M387 |
Elsflether Werft |
??.??.1943 |
11.02.1944 |
Scuttled 02.05.1945 |
| M388 |
Elsflether Werft |
22.04.1944 |
22.07.1944 |
To USA 1945 |
| M389 |
Elsflether Werft |
22.07.1944 |
20.12.1944 |
To USA 1945 |
| M390-400 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
| M401 |
Rotterdamsche Droogdok
Maatschappij (RDM),
Rotterdam |
04.04.1942 |
30.11.1942 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M402 |
Rotterdamsche Droogdok
Maatschappij (RDM),
Rotterdam |
04.04.1942 |
03.01.1943 |
Bombed in Boulogne
16.06.1944 |
| M403 |
Rotterdamsche Droogdok
Maatschappij (RDM),
Rotterdam |
15.09.1942 |
27.02.1943 |
Bombed 19.04.1945 |
| M404 |
Rotterdamsche Droogdok
Maatschappij (RDM),
Rotterdam |
14.10.1942 |
26.03.1943 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M405 |
Rotterdamsche Droogdok
Maatschappij (RDM),
Rotterdam |
14.11.1942 |
29.04.1943 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M406 |
Rotterdamsche Droogdok
Maatschappij (RDM),
Rotterdam |
30.12.1942 |
02.06.1943 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M407 |
Rotterdamsche Droogdok
Maatschappij (RDM),
Rotterdam |
15.02.1943 |
19.06.1943 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M408 |
Rotterdamsche Droogdok
Maatschappij (RDM),
Rotterdam |
25.03.1943 |
03.07.1943 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M409-410 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
| M411 |
De Schelde, Flushing |
22.08.1942 |
29.10.1942 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M412 |
De Schelde, Flushing |
06.09.1942 |
09.12.1942 |
Blown up 09.03.1945 |
| M413 |
De Schelde, Flushing |
26.10.1942 |
13.01.1943 |
Bombed 21.07.1944 |
| M414 |
De Schelde, Flushing |
09.11.1942 |
07.02.1943 |
Torpedoed 17.05.1943 |
| M415 |
De Schelde, Flushing |
16.01.1943 |
15.03.1943 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M416 |
De Schelde, Flushing |
13.02.1943 |
07.04.1943 |
Sunk 12.11.1944 |
| M417-420 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
| M421 |
Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam |
29.11.1941 |
10.09.1942 |
Mined 13.02.1945 |
| M422 |
Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam |
06.08.1942 |
28.10.1942 |
Bombed 04.08.1944 |
| M423 |
Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam |
18.10.1942 |
29.11.1942 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M424 |
Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam |
18.10.1942 |
22.12.1942 |
Bombed in Saint Malo
04.08.1944 |
| M425 |
Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam |
18.10.1942 |
31.01.1943 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M426 |
Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam |
18.10.1942 |
05.03.1943 |
Bombed 12.09.1944 |
| M427 |
Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam |
18.10.1942 |
14.04.1943 |
Sunk 13.11.1944 |
| M428 |
Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam |
18.10.1942 |
29.05.1943 |
Bombed off Noirmoutier
08.08.1944 |
| M429-430 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
| M431 |
Netherlands Dock & Sbdg.,
Amsterdam |
07.03.1942 |
29.09.1942 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M432 |
Netherlands Dock & Sbdg.,
Amsterdam |
07.03.1942 |
27.10.1942 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M433 |
Netherlands Dock & Sbdg.,
Amsterdam |
11.04.1942 |
24.11.1942 |
Bombed off Kristiansund
27.10.1944 |
| M434 |
Netherlands Dock & Sbdg.,
Amsterdam |
11.04.1942 |
23.12.1942 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M435 |
Netherlands Dock & Sbdg.,
Amsterdam |
27.06.1942 |
08.02.1943 |
Bombed 14.05.1944 |
| M436 |
Netherlands Dock & Sbdg.,
Amsterdam |
27.06.1942 |
06.03.1943 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M437 |
Netherlands Dock & Sbdg.,
Amsterdam |
27.06.1942 |
28.04.1943 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M438 |
Netherlands Dock & Sbdg.,
Amsterdam |
27.06.1942 |
10.06.1943 |
Bombed off Noirmoutier
08.08.1944 |
| M439-440 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
| M441 |
P. Smit, Jr., Rotterdam |
19.06.1942 |
26.11.1942 |
To USA 1945 |
| M442 |
P. Smit, Jr., Rotterdam |
17.08.1942 |
31.12.1942 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M443 |
P. Smit, Jr., Rotterdam |
15.09.1942 |
01.02.1944 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M444 |
P. Smit, Jr., Rotterdam |
30.11.1942 |
04.04.1943 |
Bombed 14.08.1944 |
| M445 |
P. Smit, Jr., Rotterdam |
12.12.1942 |
08.05.1943 |
Bombed 31.12.1944 |
| M446 |
P. Smit, Jr., Rotterdam |
03.02.1943 |
08.06.1943 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M447-450 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
| M451 |
Gusto Werft, Schiedam |
24.12.1941 |
04.01.1943 |
Ran aground and sunk
north of Falada, 30.01.1944 |
| M452 |
Gusto Werft, Schiedam |
19.12.1942 |
07.02.1943 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M453 |
Gusto Werft, Schiedam |
15.12.1942 |
20.03.1943 |
To USA 1945 |
| M454 |
Gusto Werft, Schiedam |
??.??.1943 |
10.05.1943 |
To USA 1945
To France 1947 |
| M455 |
Gusto Werft, Schiedam |
07.12.1942 |
11.06.1943 |
Bombed 04.1945 |
| M456 |
Gusto Werft, Schiedam |
03.03.1943 |
02.07.1943 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M457-458 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
| M459 |
Netherlands Dock & Sbdg.,
Amsterdam |
31.07.1942 |
07.12.1942 |
Bombed 10.04.1944 |
| M460 |
Netherlands Dock & Sbdg.,
Amsterdam |
31.07.1942 |
06.02.1943 |
To USA 1945 |
| M461 |
Netherlands Dock & Sbdg.,
Amsterdam |
24.10.1942 |
25.03.1943 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M462 |
Netherlands Dock & Sbdg.,
Amsterdam |
27.01.1943 |
07.05.1943 |
Bombed 12.09.1944 |
| M463 |
Netherlands Dock & Sbdg.,
Amsterdam |
17.02.1943 |
03.07.1943 |
Scuttled 25.08.1944 |
| M464-466 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
| M467 |
C. van der Giessen & Zonen,
Krimpen |
09.01.1942 |
31.10.1942 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M468 |
C. van der Giessen & Zonen,
Krimpen |
09.07.1942 |
03.12.1942 |
Torpedoed in Norway
12.08.1944 |
| M469 |
C. van der Giessen & Zonen,
Krimpen |
09.07.1942 |
06.01.1943 |
Torpedoed 04.07.1944 |
| M470 |
C. van der Giessen & Zonen,
Krimpen |
21.10.1942 |
27.02.1943 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M471 |
C. van der Giessen & Zonen,
Krimpen |
21.10.1942 |
12.04.1943 |
Bombed off Dutch coast
25.09.1944 |
| M472-474 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
| M475 |
J. & K. Smit's Scheepswerven,
Kinderdijk |
29.08.1942 |
23.12.1942 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M476 |
J. & K. Smit's Scheepswerven,
Kinderdijk |
03.10.1942 |
20.03.1943 |
To Britain 1945 |
| M477-482 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
| M483 |
Boele's, Slikkerveer |
16.05.1942 |
01.12.1942 |
Bombed near Channel Islands
15.06.1943 |
| M484 |
Boele's, Slikkerveer |
25.08.1942 |
20.01.1943 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M485 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
| M486 |
Verschure, Amsterdam |
16.05.1942 |
03.12.1942 |
Sunk 06.08.1944 |
| M487-488 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
| M489 |
L. Smit, Kinderdijk |
28.08.1942 |
15.05.1944 |
Torpedoed 23.12.1944 |
| M490-494 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
| M495 |
N.V. Scheepsbouwerf
Gebroeders Pot, Bolnes |
04.09.1942 |
11.03.1943 |
To USA 1945 |
| M496 |
N.V. Scheepsbouwerf
Gebroeders Pot, Bolnes |
12.01.1943 |
07.06.1943 |
To USSR 1945 |
| M497-501 |
- |
- |
- |
Canceled |
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