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Minensuchboot 1916

Largest class of minehunters build in WW1  Minensuchboot 1916  Class

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Name Construction Launched Commissioned Fate
M57 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1916 01.01.1917
16.09.1917
Used as a floating barrack in 1939, fate unknown
M58 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1916 04.08.1917 23.10.1917 Sold and scrapped in 1922.
M59 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1914 31.10.1917 30.11.1917 On 02.08.1922 bought by Lithuania, renamed as Presidentas Smetona and served as patrol ship, training ship, and President's yacht. In 1934 renamed Anastasas Smetona , on 22.06.1940 renamed as Primunas . In 08.1940, the ship  was included into 2nd Baltic detachment of board guard vessels of Sea Board Guard of NKVD as board guard ship and renamed Korall . On 22.06.1941 transferred and on 19.08.1941 included into Baltic Fleet as minesweeper No.76 , on 07.09.1941 reclassified as guard ship and renamed Korall , on 25.11.1943 reclassified again as minesweeper, on 05.06.1944 refitted as electro-magnetic minesweeper, on 29.08.1944 renamed T-33 . On 11.01.1945 mined and sunk in Finnish Gulf near Aegna island.
M60 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1916 28.11.1917 15.01.1918 Used as Fleet Tender Hecht in 1939. Taken over by Russia in 1945, renamed to Donec . Scrapped 1958.
M61 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1916 13.04.1918 20.04.1918 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 26.07.1940.
M62 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1916 13.04.1918 29.04.1918 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 09.08.1918.
M63 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1916 27.03.1917 06.05.1917 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 28.06.1917.
M64 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1916 21.04.1917 20.05.1917 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 20.04.1918.
M65 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1916 12.05.1917 10.06.1917 Sold and scrapped in 1922.
M66 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1916 02.06.1917 01.07.1917 Reclassified to experimental ship in 1937, renamed Störtebecker . Renamed M 566 in 1941, taken over by the USA after World War II. Scrapped in 1950.
M67 Neptun Rostock, 1916 30.06.1917 04.09.1917 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 25.04.1918.
M68 Neptun Rostock, 1916 25.07.1917 06.10.1917 On 29.10.1917 mined and beached in Rigaer Gulf, in 1918 refloated by Germans and towed to Riga for repairs. In 01.1919 included into Red Lettland flotilla as dispatch vessel Sarkana Latvia , in 05.1919 captured in Riga by Germans, in 07.1919 renamed as Virsaitis . On 10.11.1921 commissioned into Lettland Navy as minesweeper. On 19.08.1940 included into Baltic fleet as minesweeper, on 17.10.1940 renamed T-297 , on 25.07.1941 reclassified as guard ship and renamed Virsaitis . On 03.12.1941 mined and sunk in Finnish Gulf, when escorted convoy from Hanko.
M69 Neptun Rostock, 1916 16.08.1917 03.11.1917 Sold and scrapped in 1922.
M70 Neptun Rostock, 1916 28.09.1917 07.12.1917 Sold to Hungary in 1929, planed rebuild as a mine layer stopped, fate unknown.
M71 Vulcan Bremen, 1917 11.01.1918 14.04.1918 Sold and scrapped in 1922.
M72   Vulcan Bremen, 1917 20.02.1918 28.04.1918 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine as training ship. Taken over by the USA in 1945, returned to Germany in 1947, used as floating barrack for police officers. Scrapped in 1953.
M73 Vulcan Bremen, 1917 20.02.1918 18.07.1918 Sold and scrapped in 1922.
M74 Vulcan Bremen, 1917 26.04.1918 18.06.1918 Sold in 1922 to Argentine as Meta . Used as mine hunter M5, renamed to Murature in 1938. Reclassified to Aviso Cormoran in 1938, since 1940 used as a Museum ship.
M75   Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1917 21.07.1917 16.08.1917 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine as training ship. Sunk during a storm on 01.03.1945.
M76 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1917 15.08.1917 09.09.1917 Sold and scrapped in 1922.
M77 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1917 04.09.1917 30.09.1917 Sold in 1922, rebuild as Rhine river tug Luwen 3 . Renamed Reichspräsident in 1928. Sold to Blohm & Voss in 1935 as aircraft recovery ship Kranich , scrapped 1961.
M78 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1917 20.11.1917 13.12.1917 Sold and scrapped in 1922.
M79 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1918 15.01.1919 19.03.1919 Sold in 1921 to Argentine as Melitta . Used as mine hunter M6 , renamed Pinedo in 1938. Used as a floating barrack from 1951 on. Sold in 1969, fate unknown.
M80 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1918 15.01.1919 01.04.1919 Sold in 1921 to Argentine Margot . Used as mine hunter M7 , renamed Py in 1938. Used up as a pontoon since 1937.
M81 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1918 08.09.1919 13.10.1919 Reclassified as fleet tender in 1920, renamed Nautilus in 1929. Scrapped 1950.
M82 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1918 08.09.1919 08.11.1919 Reclassified as fleet tender in 1925, renamed Jagd in 1929. Scrapped 1954.
M83 Atlaswerke Bremen, 1917 19.09.1917 13.11.1917 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 01.07.1918.
M84   Atlaswerke Bremen, 1917 10.10.1917 16.12.1917 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine as experimental ship. Renamed M584 in 1940. Sunk after mine hit on 30.11.1944.
M85 Nordseewerke Emden, 1917 10.04.1918 03.08.1918 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. Sunk after mine hit on 01.10.1939.
M86 Nordseewerke Emden, 1917 10.10.1917 21.03.1918 Sold and scrapped in 1921.
M87 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1916 30.10.1917 23.11.1917 Sold and scrapped in 1921.
M88   Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1916 26.09.1917 14.10.1917 Sold and scrapped in 1922.
M89 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1916 11.12.1917 01.01.1918 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. Sunk after mine hit on 26.07.1940.
M90 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1916 29.12.1917 23.01.1918 Sold in 1922 to Argentine as Marianne . Used as mine hunter M8 , renamed Segui in 1938. Reclassified to diver ship in 1934, scrapped 1963.
M91 Neptun Rostock, 1917 01.11.1917 10.01.1918 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 10.03.1918.
M92 Neptun Rostock, 1917 08.12.1917 21.02.1918 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 01.07.1918.
M93 Neptun Rostock, 1917 18.01.1918 14.03.1918 Sold and scrapped in 1921.
M94 Neptun Rostock, 1917 20.02.1918 15.04.1918 Sold and scrapped in 1921.
M95 Atlaswerke Bremen, 1917 21.12.1917 05.03.1918 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 20.04.1918.
M96 Atlaswerke Bremen, 1917 22.02.1918 15.04.1918 Reclassified as hospital ship. Capsized on 15.03.1920 in Stettin, raised in 1922, scrapped.
M97 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1917 28.03.1918 21.04.1918 Sold in 1921 to Yugoslavia, used as tug boat and minelayer Orano . Captured by Italian troops in 1941, renamed Vergada . Given back to Yugoslavia in 1943, scrapped 1962.
M98 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1917 16.04.1918 07.05.1918 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. Scrapped 1949.
M99 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1917 08.05.1918 26.05.1918 Sold and scrapped in 1921.
M100 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1917 23.05.1918 16.06.1918 Sold in 1921 to Yugoslavia, used as tug boat and minelayer Galeb . Captured by Italian troops in 1941, renamed Selve , sunk 1942.
M101 Atlaswerke Bremen, 1917 20.04.1918 19.06.1918 Sold in 1922 to Argentine as Margarita . Used as mine hunter M9 , renamed Thorne in 1938. Reclassified as Aviso Petrel in 1947, hulk still existing in 1992.
M102 Atlaswerke Bremen, 1917 31.05.1918 27.07.1918 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. Scrapped 1946.
M103 Neptun Rostock, 1917 27.03.1918 24.05.1918 Sold and scrapped in 1922.
M104 Neptun Rostock, 1917 27.04.1918 29.06.1918 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. Sunk after air attack on 09.04.945 in Kiel.
M105 Reihersteig Hamburg, 1918 06.07.1918 10.10.1918 Sold in 1922 to Argentine as Mecha . Used as mine hunter M10 . Rebuild as presidential yacht Golondria in 1925. Sold for scrap in 1958.
M106 Reihersteig Hamburg, 1918 08.07.1918 21.03.1919 Sold in 1921 to Yugoslavia, used as tug boat and minelayer Gavran . Captured by Italian troops in 1941, renamed Zuri . Sunk during an air attack on 10.07.1943.
M107 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1917 03.07.1918 30.07.1918 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine as R-boat tender Von der Groeben . Beached after mine hit on 18.08.1940, repaired and sunk after air attack on 15.06.1944.
M108 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1917 17.07.1918 10.08.1918 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine as artillery training ship Delphin . Taken over by Russia after World War II, fate unknown.
M109 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1917 07.08.1918 29.08.1918 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine as experimental ship Johann Wittenborg . Renamed M509 in 1940, scrapped in 1950.
M110 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1917 27.08.1918 19.09.1918 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. Beached on 20.11.1943, repaired and put into service again. Scraped in 1950.
M111 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1917 17.09.1918 11.10.1918 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. Sunk after run into own minefield on 03.11.1941 near Kolberg.
M112 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1917   12.11.1918 31.10.1918 Sold in 1921 to Yugoslavia, used as tug boat and minelayer Jastreb . Captured by Italian troops in 1941, renamed Zirona . Sunk during an air attack on 25.11.1941.
M113   Stücklen Hamburg, 1918 27.05.1919 28.04.1920 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. Reclassified as U-Boat tender Acheron . Scrapped after 1946.
M114 Stücklen Hamburg, 1918 28.09.1920 --- Incomplete sold and rebuild as transport ship Leopold David . Sunk on 09.01.1922 after explosion of its payload.
M115 Atlaswerke Bremen, 1917 12.07.1918 19.09.1918 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine as experimental ship Arcona . Sunk after mine hit on 21.05.1944.
M116 Atlaswerke Bremen, 1917 10.08.1918 15.10.1918 Used as floating barrack W WB 1 since 1922, fate unknown.
M117 Atlaswerke Bremen, 1917 20.09.1918 1919 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. Scrapped after 1946.
M118 Atlaswerke Bremen, 1917 12.10.1918 01.04.1919 Sold and scrapped in 1922.
M119   Neptun Rostock, 1917 22.06.1918 17.08.1918 Sold to Italy in 1921 as Meteo . Renamed Viesti in 1925. Scraped in 1945.
M120 Neptun Rostock, 1917 24.07.1918 20.09.1918 Sold to Italy in 1921 as Abastro . Renamed Cotrone in 1925 and Crotone in 1931. Taken over by German troops in 1943, used as Minelayer Kehrwieder . Used as training ship Garaventa until 1968.
M121 Neptun Rostock, 1917 10.09.1918 25.10.1918 Sold in 1921 to Yugoslavia, used as tug boat and minelayer Kobac . Captured by Italian troops in 1941, renamed to Unie . Sunk during air attack on 30.01.1943.
M122 Neptun Rostock, 1917 21.09.1918 27.02.1919 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. Sunk on 18.05.1946.
M123 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1918 --- --- Construction stopped, incomplete ship scrapped.
M124 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1918 --- --- Construction stopped, incomplete ship scrapped.
M125 Flensburger Schiffsbaugesellschaft Flensburg, 1918 26.10.1918 24.04.1919 Used as prison ship in 1920, after that reclassified as floating barrack W WB 2 . Still existent in 1941, final fate unknown.
M126 Flensburger Schiffsbaugesellschaft Flensburg, 1918 21.12.1918 01.07.1919 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. Scrapped after 1946.
M127 Union-Gießerei Königsberg, 1918 --- --- Construction stopped, incomplete ship scrapped.
M128 Union-Gießerei Königsberg, 1918 --- --- Construction stopped, incomplete ship scrapped.
M129 Reihersteig Hamburg, 1918 15.01.1919 20.05.1919 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine, renamed Otto Braun . sunk after mine hit on 02.12.1941.
M130 Reihersteig Hamburg, 1918 13.02.1919 29.07.1919 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine, renamed training ship Fuchs . Taken over by the Soviet Union in 1945, renamed Minoga . Fate unknown.
M131 Reihersteig Hamburg, 1918 07.06.1919 --- Incomplete ship sold to Montevideo in 1919.
M132 Reihersteig Hamburg, 1918 14.01.1919 14.11.1919 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. Sunk after nearby depth charge explosion on 13.11.1939.
M133 Frerichs & Co. Einswarden, 1918 1919 15.12.1919 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine as tender Wacht .  Renamed Raule in 1939, sunk after air attack on 17.05.1942.
M134 Frerichs & Co. Einswarden, 1918 28.07.1919 12.03.1920 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. Renamed tender Frauenlob in 1929. Sunk near Bergen on 09.05.1940 after an air attack. Raised and recommissioned in 21.03.1941. Renamed to Jungingen and sunk by British MTB on 27.9.1943.
M135 Frerichs & Co. Einswarden, 1918 15.03.1919 31.10.1919 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. Renamed tender Hela in 1923. Taken over by Russia in 1946 used as floating barrack. Scrapped 1965.
M136 Frerichs & Co. Einswarden, 1918 1919 15.11.1919 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. Renamed tender Havel in 1938. Sunk after mine hit on on 26.07.1940.
M137 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1917 15.01.1919 26.10.1920 Sold and scrapped in 1922.
M138 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1917 17.02.1919 21.03.1919 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. Renamed tender Zieten in 1921. Renamed Nettelbeck in 1939, sunk after air attack on 21.60.1944. Raised and towed to Königsberg, beached during a storm on 26.01.1945
M139 Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1917 12.03.1919 --- Sold in 1919, rebuild as ferry Helgoland . Sold to Norway in 1922 as Tönsberg I , 1931 to Columbia as patrol boat Bogota . Sunk after accident in 1946.
M140   Tecklenborg Geestermünde, 1917 15.05.1919 --- Sold in 1919, rebuild as ferry Hörnum . Sold to Britain in 1922 as St. Elian , 1927 to Italy as Partenope . Renamed Ischia in 1949, 1972 rebuild as restaurant ship Bucaneer . Still existing in 1994.
M141 Stücklen Hamburg, 1918 --- --- Construction stopped, incomplete ship scrapped.
M142 Stücklen Hamburg, 1918 --- --- Construction stopped, incomplete ship scrapped.
M143 Stücklen Hamburg, 1918 --- --- Construction stopped, incomplete ship scrapped.
M144 Neptun Rostock, 1917 19.03.1919 20.06.1919 Sold in 1921 to Yugoslavia, used as tug boat and minelayer Sokol . Captured by Italian troops in 1941, renamed Eso . Sunk by air launched torpedo on 19.01.1943.
M145 Neptun Rostock, 1917 22.05.1919 20.06.1919 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. Scrapped 1949.
M146 Flensburger Schiffsbaugesellschaft Flensburg, 1918 21.12.1918 11.08.1919 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine as fleet tender Taku . Renamed Von der Lippe in 1943, sunk after bomb hit on 15.06.1944
M147 Flensburger Schiffsbaugesellschaft Flensburg, 1918 May 1920 --- Incomplete sold and rebuild as transport ship Erna David , renamed to Principio in 1922. Sold to Mexico in the 1930s, sunk during a storm in 1966.
M148 Flensburger Schiffsbaugesellschaft Flensburg, 1918 --- --- Construction stopped, incomplete ship scrapped.
M149 Flensburger Schiffsbaugesellschaft Flensburg, 1918 --- --- Construction stopped, incomplete ship scrapped.
M150 Hansawerft Tönning May 1920 --- Sold and scrapped in 1920.
M151 Hansawerft Tönning September 1920 --- Incomplete sold and rebuild as transport ship Kosmos I . Sold to Nicaragua in 1925, used by several South American countries. Beached in 1964.
M152 Hansawerft Tönning November 1920 --- Incomplete sold and rebuild as transport ship Wilbo . Capsized during a storm in 1923.
M153 Frerichs & Co. Einswarden, 1918 --- --- Construction stopped, incomplete ship scrapped.
M154 Frerichs & Co. Einswarden, 1918 --- --- Construction stopped, incomplete ship scrapped.
M155 Frerichs & Co. Einswarden, 1918 --- --- Construction stopped, incomplete ship scrapped.
M156 Frerichs & Co. Einswarden, 1918 --- --- Construction stopped, incomplete ship scrapped.
M157 Nordseewerke Emden 09.04.1917 08.12.1919 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. Sunk after a mine hit during a snow storm on 27.12.1941.
M158 Nordseewerke Emden 1920 --- Rebuild as ferry in 1923, renamed Grille . Sold to France as Dinard . Sold to Columbia as patrol boat Cordova , sunk after accident in 1946.
M159 Union-Gießerei Königsberg --- --- Order canceled.
M160 Union-Gießerei Königsberg --- --- Order canceled.
M161 Reihersteig Hamburg, 1918 1920 --- Rebuild as transport Julius , beached on 14.11.1920.
M162 Reihersteig Hamburg --- --- Order canceled.
M163 Tecklenborg Geestermünde --- --- Order canceled.
M164 Tecklenborg Geestermünde --- --- Order canceled.
M165 Tecklenborg Geestermünde --- --- Order canceled.
M166 Tecklenborg Geestermünde --- --- Order canceled.
M167 Frerichs & Co. Einswarden --- --- Order canceled.
M168 Frerichs & Co. Einswarden --- --- Order canceled.
M169 Unterweser Schiffbau Lehe --- --- Order canceled.
M170 Unterweser Schiffbau Lehe --- --- Order canceled.
M171   Henry Koch Lübeck --- --- Order canceled.
M172   Henry Koch Lübeck --- --- Order canceled.
M173   Janssen & Schilinsky Hamburg --- --- Order canceled.
M174   Janssen & Schilinsky Hamburg --- --- Order canceled.
M175   Nüscke & Co Stettin --- --- Order canceled.
M176   Nüscke & Co Stettin 26.10.1918 24.04.1919 Order canceled.

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