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Flachgehende Minensuchboote

Small minehunters for costal areas.  Flachgehende Minensuchboote  Class

   History   Ships   Technical Data 
Name Construction Launched Commissioned Fate
FM1 Seebeck Geestermünde 1918 15.06.1918 18.07.1918 Sold in 1920, used under various names until 1939. Taken into military service again as Patrol boat and navigation training ship Nordpol . Sunk after air attack on 09.10.1943. Raised in 1945, used as floating barrack and ferry until 1950. Scrapped 1960.
FM2 Seebeck Geestermünde 1918 06.07.1918 24.08.1918 Sold to Poland in 1921 as mine hunter Czajka. Used as civilian transport from 1932 on, it was scuttled in Gdynia in September 1939 and scrapped.
FM3 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1918 17.01.1918 13.02.1918 Sold to Belgium in 1920 as Cecedena IV . Bought by Germany again in 1925,  scrapped 1935.
FM4 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1918 23.02.1918 27.02.1918 Sold to Bulgaria in 1920, fate unknown.
FM5 Frerichs Einswarden, 1918 1918 05.08.1918 Sold to Greece in 1919. captured by German troops in 1941, renamed 10 V 1 , sunk.
FM6 Frerichs Einswarden, 1918 1918 27.10.1918 Rebuild as a river transport ship in 1919.
FM7 Frerichs Einswarden, 1918 1918 n/a Rebuild as a river transport ship in 1919.
FM8 Stülcken Hamburg, 1918 26.07.1918 19.10.1918 Rebuild as a river transport ship in 1919.
FM9 Stülcken Hamburg, 1918 03.12.1918 14.09.1919 Sold in 1919.
FM10 Stülcken Hamburg, 1918 16.01.1919 01.04.1919 Sold in 1919.
FM11 Sachsenberg Rosslau, 1918 1918 13.09.1918 Sold in 1919.
FM12 Sachsenberg Rosslau, 1918 1918 n/a Sold in 1919.
FM13 Union Königsberg, 1918 20.07.1918 07.10.1918 Sold to Romania in 1920s as Socratis . Bought by the Kriegsmarine in 1941, rebuild as minelayer Xanten . Sunk 30.08.1944.
FM14 Union Königsberg, 1918 28.10.1918 05.05.1919 Sold to Norway in 1922 as customs boat T1 . Taken over by
Germany troops in 1940 as Grenadier . Sold in 1947, scrapped 1950.
FM15 Dresdener Maschinen-Fabrik, 1918 1918 18.10.1918 Sold in 1919.
FM16 Dresdener Maschinen-Fabrik, 1918 1919 n/a Sold to Albania in 1920, fate unknown.
FM17 Meyer Werft Papenburg, 1918 18.05.1918 10.09.1918 Sold in 1919.
FM18 Meyer Werft Papenburg, 1918 1918 n/a Sold in 1919.
FM19 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1918 23.02.1918 14.03.1918 Sold to Portugal as ferry Raul Cascais in 1922. Used as fishery protection ship from 1924 on, scrapped 1937.
FM20 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1918 09.03.1918 27.03.1918 Sold to Greece in 1920 as ferry.
FM21 Seebeck Geestermünde 1918 14.12.1918 01.04.1919 Taken over by France in 1945 as hulk floating barrack, scrapped.
FM22 Seebeck Geestermünde 1918 19.02.1919 09.05.1919 Scuttled near Kiel on 07.04.1945.
FM23 Frerichs Einswarden, 1918 1918 25.12.1918 Sunk after mine hit on 11.07.1941. Raised in July 1941, recommissiond in 1943, taken over by Britain after the war, scrapped.
FM24 Frerichs Einswarden, 1918 1918 18.03.1919 Sunk after mine hit on 28.01.1944. Raised, taken over by Britain after the war. Given to France in 1947 as Ailette . Bought by German Bundesmarine in 1957 as Wespe . Sunk as a target ship in 1973 near Helgoland.
FM25 Schiffbaugesellschaft Unterweser Lehe, 1918 28.05.1918 03.08.1918 Sunk in September 1944.
FM26 Schiffbaugesellschaft Unterweser Lehe, 1918 10.08.1918 06.10.1918 Sunk after air attack in the British Channel on 15.05.1942.
FM27 Wollheim Breslau, 1918 1918 n/a

Sunk after mine hit on 11.08.1944.

Polish sources say that the ship was sold to Poland as Jaskolka and used as civilian transport ship on the Vistula river since 1932. Fate is unknown.

FM28 Wollheim Breslau, 1918 1918 n/a

Taken over by Britain after the war. Given ot France as Meuse . Decommissioned in 1957, used as hulk Q57 .

Polish sources say that the ship was sold to Poland as Mewa . In 1931 it was rebuild as hydrographic ship Pomirzanin (II) and sunk on 14.09.1939.

FM29 Nobiskrug Rendsburg, 1919 1919 n/a Taken over by the Soviet Union in 1945. Added into Soviet Navy lists on 05.11.1945, on 15.11.1945 taken by a Soviet crew, on 13.05.1946 renamed T-913 , on 27.07.1946, when arrived to Sevastopol, included into the Black Sea Fleet. On 03.10.1947 put out of the combat fleet, disarmed, and reclassified as hydrographical ship, on 11.11.1947 renamed Tuman . On 08.09.1956 removed from the Navy lists, on 30.09.1956 transfered for scrapping and disbanded.
FM30 Lübecker Maschinenbaugesellschaft
Lübeck, 1919
1919 n/a Taken over by the Soviet Union in 1945. Added into Soviet Navy lists on 05.11.1945, on 15.11.1945 taken by a Soviet crew, on 13.05.1946 renamed T-914 , on 27.07.1946, when arrived to Sevastopol, included into the Black Sea Fleet. On 18.12.1954 put out of the combat fleet, disarmed, reclassified as rescue ship, and transfered into the Caspian Flotilla, on 12.01.1955 renamed Sangesur . On 22.10.1958 removed from the Navy lists and transfered for scrapping.
FM31 Lübecker Maschinenbaugesellschaft
Lübeck, 1919
1919 11.06.1919 Sold to Poland as mine hunter Rybitwa in 1920, withdrawn from service in 1931, scrapped 1934.
FM32 Sachsenberg Rosslau, 1919 1919 n/a Rebuild as a river transport ship in 1921.
FM33 Nordseewerke Emden, 1919 1919 18.06.1919 Sold to Bulgaria in 1920, fate unknown.
FM34 Nordseewerke Emden, 1919 1919 n/a Rebuild as a river transport ship in 1920.
FM35 Union Königsberg, 1919 1919 n/a Sold to Persia in 1923 as gunboat Pahlvi , scrapped 1941.
FM36 Oderwerke Stettin, 1919 1919 29.04.1919 Sold to Bulgaria in 1919, fate unknown.
FM37 Schiffbaugesellschaft Unterweser Lehe, 1919 21.05.1919 11.10.1919 Sold to Italy in 1923 as Abbazia . Sunk after bomb hit on 23.10.1942.
FM38 Schiffbaugesellschaft Unterweser Lehe, 1919 26.08.1919 20.12.1919 Sold to Italy in 1923 as Laurana . Sunk after bomb hit on
12.02.1945.
FM39 Schiffbaugesellschaft Unterweser Lehe, 1919 28.07.1919 22.12.1919 Sold in 1919.
FM40 Schiffbaugesellschaft Unterweser Lehe, 1919 --- --- Never completed, scrapped.
FM41 Schiffbaugesellschaft Unterweser Lehe, 1919 --- --- Never completed, scrapped.
FM42 Rickmers Geestermünde, 1919 1918 18.11.1919 Sold in 1922 as Pionier . Sold to Uruguay as Oltul in 1926, scraped 1935.
FM43 Rickmers Geestermünde, 1919 --- --- Never completed, scrapped.
FM44 Rickmers Geestermünde, 1919 --- --- Never completed, scrapped.
FM45 Schiffswerft Kock Lübeck, 1919 --- --- Never completed, scrapped.
FM46 Schiffswerft Kock Lübeck, 1919 --- --- Never completed, scrapped.
FM47 Schiffswerft Kock Lübeck, 1919 --- --- Never completed, scrapped.
FM48 Meyer Werft Papenburg, 1919 1919 19.10.1919 Sold to Greece in 1922.
FM49 Meyer Werft Papenburg, 1919 1919 Summer 1919 Sold to Italy in 1923 as Albona , scrapped 1939.
FM50 Meyer Werft Papenburg, 1919 1919 Summer 1919 Sold to Greece in 1922 as Eliane .
FM51 Janssen & Schmilinsky Hamburg 1919 --- --- Never completed, scrapped.
FM52 Janssen & Schmilinsky Hamburg 1919 --- --- Never completed, scrapped.
FM53 Janssen & Schmilinsky Hamburg 1919 --- --- Never completed, scrapped.
FM54 Kremer Elmsholm, 1918 1919 n/a Sold to Denmark in 1922 as Vestjyden . Bought by Germany in 1925, by Poland in 1935 as Carmen . Scuttled in September 1939, raised in  1940, taken over by the Soviet Union in 1945. Fate unknown.
FM55 Kremer Elmsholm, 1918 1918 n/a Sold to the Netherlands in 1930 as Wilhelmina , sold to Belgium in 1931 as Miramar . Taken over by German troops in 1940, fate unknown.
FM56 Wollheim Breslau, 1918 Summer 1918 n/a Sold in 1919.
FM57 Wollheim Breslau, 1918 Summer 1918 n/a Sold in 1919.
FM58 Dresdener Maschinenfabrik Dresden, 1919 --- --- Never completed, scrapped.
FM59 Dresdener Maschinenfabrik Dresden, 1919 --- --- Never completed, scrapped.
FM60 Nobiskrug Rendsburg, 1919 --- --- Never completed, scrapped.
FM61 Nobiskrug Rendsburg, 1919 --- --- Never completed, scrapped.
FM62 Thormählen Elmshorn, 1919 1919 n/a Rebuild as ferry Vaterland , sold to Portugal in 1933 as Ribatejo Primeiro . Still existing 1947, fate unknown.
FM63 Klawitter Danzig, 1919 --- --- Never completed, scrapped.
FM64 Klawitter Danzig, 1919 --- --- Never completed, scrapped.
FM65 Nüscke Stettin, 1919 --- --- Never completed, scrapped.
FM66 Nüscke Stettin, 1919 --- --- Never completed, scrapped.

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  Thanks to:  Michal Derela