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Minensuchboot 1914

The first class of special build minehunters for the German Navy.  Minensuchboot 1914  Class

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Name Construction Launched Commissioned Fate
M1   Seebeck Geestermünde, 1914 26.05.1915 17.07.1915 Sold and scrapped in 1922.
M2 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1914 03.06.1915 08.08.1915 Sold in 1922, rebuild to be sold to foreign countries. Fate unknown.
M3 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1914 19.09.1915 28.09.1915 Sold in 1922, rebuild to be sold to foreign countries. Fate unknown.
M4 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1914 19.09.1915 02.10.1915 Sold in 1922, rebuild to be sold to foreign countries. Fate unknown.
M5 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1914 19.09.1915 25.10.1915 Sold in 1922, rebuild to be sold to foreign countries. Fate unknown.
M6 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1914 19.09.1915 13.11.1915 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 31.07.1918.
M7 Neptun Rostock, 1914   25.05.1915 17.07.1915 Sold and scrapped in 1922.
M8 Neptun Rostock, 1914   18.06.1915 15.08.1915 Sold and scrapped in 1922.
M9 Neptun Rostock, 1914   1915 04.09.1915 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 18.06.1917.
M10 Neptun Rostock, 1914   1915 24.09.1915 Sold to Greece in 1920, reclassified as auxiliary cruiser Aktion in 1922. Sold to Canada in 1930, renamed Prince William . Scrapped in 1947.
M11 Neptun Rostock, 1914   21.07.1915 13.10.1915 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 28.12.1917.
M12 Neptun Rostock, 1914   27.07.1915 31.10.1915 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 27.07.1916.
M13 Nordsee, 1914 26.05.1915 23.11.1915 Sold in 1922, rebuild to be sold to foreign countries. Fate unknown.
M14 Nordsee, 1914 21.11.1915 04.02.1916 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 30.03.1917.
M15 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1915 19.09.1915 13.12.1915 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 21.03.1917.
M16 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1915 14.11.1915 10.01.1916 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 20.01.1918.
M17 Seebeck Geestermünde, 1915 19.12.1915 29.01.1916 Used as a training ship by the Reichsmarine. Sold in 1922, rebuild to be sold to foreign countries. Fate unknown.
M18 Neptun Rostock, 1914   25.08.1915 18.11.1915 Sold and scrapped in 1922.
M19   Neptun Rostock, 1914   10.09.1915 16.08.1917 Used by Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine as training ship. Sunk during a storm on 01.03.1945.
M20 Neptun Rostock, 1914   30.09.1915 23.12.1915 Sold in 1922, rebuild to be sold to foreign countries. Fate unknown.
M21 Frerichs, 1915 October 1915 17.12.1915 Sold and scrapped in 1922.
M22 Frerichs, 1915 December 1915 31.01.1916 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 14.10.1918.
M23 Tecklenborg Geestermünde,  1915 29.07.1915 27.08.1915 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 04.06.1917.
M24 Tecklenborg Geestermünde,  1915 11.08.1915 13.09.1915 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 16.03.1917.
M25 Tecklenborg Geestermünde,  1915 28.08.1915 08.10.1915 Sold and scrapped in 1922.
M26 Tecklenborg Geestermünde,  1915 09.09.1915 18.10.1915 Sunk after mine hit in the North Sea on 21.03.1917.

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