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minelayer
A minelayer is any warship, submarine, military aircraft or land vehicle deploying explosive mines. Since World War I the term "minelayer" refers specifically to a naval ship used for deploying naval mines. "Mine planting" was the term for ins ...
ship classes by country
Australia
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HMAS Bungaree −1 ship in service 1941 to 1946
China
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Wolei-class minelayer – 1 ship in service from 1988
Denmark
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Falster-class minelayer – 4 ships (in
Danish) all scrapped
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Lindormen-class minelayer – 2 ships (sold to Estonia)
Finland
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Finnish minelayer Louhi 1 ship in service 1918 to 1945
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Finnish minelayer Keihässalmi 1 ship in service from 1957 to 1994
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Hämeenmaa-class minelayer 2 ships in service from 1992
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Pansio-class minelayer 3 ships in service from 1991
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Finnish minelayer Pohjanmaa 1 ship in service from 1979 to 2013
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Pukkio-class minelayer 3 ships in service from 1947 to 1991
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Ruotsinsalmi-class minelayer
The ''Ruotsinsalmi''-class minelayers were a two-strong class of minelayers in the Finnish Navy. The two ships, comprising and ,
were constructed in Finland and saw service in the Winter War and World War II. ''Riihahti'' was sunk in an engagem ...
2 ships in service 1940 to 1975
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Teplokhod-class motor minelayer 8 ships 1914 to 1952? ( 3? also used by the Estonian Navy)
France
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French cruiser Pluton 1 ship in service 1929 to 1939
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Pluton-class minelayer (1912) 2 ships in service 1914 to 1921
Germany
Imperial German Navy
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Brummer-class cruiser – 2 ships
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Nautilus-class minelayer
The ''Nautilus'' class was a pair of minelayer, minelaying cruisers built by the Imperial German Navy. was laid down in 1905 and completed by 1907, and was laid down in 1907, and completed in 1908. Both ships were built by the AG Weser shipyard ...
– 2 ships
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SMS Deutschland (1914) – 1 ship
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SS Königin Luise (1913) – 1 ship
Kriegsmarine
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German training ship Bremse – 1 ship
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German training ship Brummer
''Brummer'' was a training ship of Nazi Germany's ''Kriegsmarine'' during World War II designed in the mid 1930s primarily for anti-aircraft gunnery training, she was also fitted for mine laying, her intended duty in wartime. ''Brummer'' was als ...
– 1 ship
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Drache – 1 ship (ex Yugoslav)
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Brummer (ii) – 1 ship (ex Norwegian)
Iran
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Iran Ajr
''Iran Ajr'' (), formerly known as the ''Arya Rakhsh'', was a Japanese-built landing craft used by Iran to lay naval mines during the Iran–Iraq War. Built in 1978, the 614-ton, 54-meter ship was powered by two diesel engines and featured a bow ...
– 1 ship
Italy
Regia Marina
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Italian minelayer Fasana
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– 1 ship
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Azio-class minelayer
The ''Azio''-class minelayer was a class of six minelayers conceived in 1920 and built between 1924 and 1927 in Italy for the ''Regia Marina''. The ships were conceived for colonial purposes and in this role they spent almost the whole Italian car ...
– 6 ships
Japan
Imperial Japanese Navy
Source:
[Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, pp. 197–204]
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Hatsutaka-class minelayer
The was a class of minelayers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the ...
– 3 ships
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Japanese minelayer Itsukushima
was a medium-sized minelayer of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which was in service during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. She was named after Itsukushima, a sacred island in Hiroshima Prefecture of Japan. She was the first warship ...
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Japanese minelayer Kamishima
was a small minelayer of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which was in service during the final stages of World War II. She was named after Kamishima Island, a small island in Mie Prefecture, offshore Toba, Mie. She was the lead ship of the two-vesse ...
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Japanese minelayer Minoo
was a minelayer of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which was in service during the final stages of World War II. She was the lead ship of what was intended to be a two-vessel class, but her sister ship, designated ''Vessel #1822'' was not completed b ...
– 1 ship
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Natsushima-class minelayer (1933) – 3 ships
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Japanese minelayer Okinoshima – 1 ship
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Japanese minelayer Shirataka
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Sokuten-class auxiliary minelayer (1913) – 13 ships
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MV Tenyo Maru (1935) – 1 ship
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Japanese minelayer Tsugaru – 1 ship
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Japanese minelayer Yaeyama
was a small minelayer of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which was in service during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II primarily as an escort vessel. She was named after the Yaeyama Islands in the Ryukyu Islands chain. She was the first ...
– 1 ship
Korea (ROK)
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Nampo-class minelayer
Netherlands
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Douwe Aukes-class minelayer – 2 ships
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Hydra-class minelayer – 2 ships
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Prins van Oranje-class minelayers – 2 ships
Norway
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HNoMS Frøya
The minelayer HNoMS ''Frøya'' was built for the Royal Norwegian Navy by the naval shipyard in Horten (town), Horten during World War I, with yard number 108. A fast ship for her time, she was kept in service until the Operation Weserübung, Germa ...
– 1 ship
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Vale-class gunboat – 5 ships (4 captured by Germany)
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Glommen-class minelayer – 2 ships (1 captured by Germany)
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HNoMS Olav Tryggvason
HNoMS ''Olav Tryggvason'' was a minelayer that was built by the Shipyard, naval shipyard at Horten (town), Horten in the early 1930s with the yard number 119. She served in the Royal Norwegian Navy until captured by the Germans in 1940. The Germa ...
– 1 ship (captured by Germany)
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Gor-class Former
US Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare, maritime military branch, service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is the world's most powerful navy with the largest Displacement (ship), displacement, at 4.5 millio ...
Auk-class.
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«Brage» ex.
USS «Triumph» (1961–1991)
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«Gor»
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«Uller»
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«Tyr»
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Vidar-class Two ships built in Norway.
** (1977–2006) Sold to Latvia in 2006.
** (1978–2003) Donated to Latvia in 2003.
Poland
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ORP Gryf (1936) – 1 ship
Romania
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NMS Aurora – 1 ship
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NMS Alexandru cel Bun – 1 ship
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NMS Amiral Murgescu
NMS ''Amiral Murgescu'' was a minelayer and convoy escort of the Romanian Navy, the first sea-going warship built in Romania and the largest Romanian-built warship of World War II. She laid numerous minefields, from the Bulgarian port of Burgas ...
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NMS Regele Carol I
NMS ''Regele Carol I'' was a passenger ship of the Romanian Maritime Service and later a warship of the Romanian Navy, serving as both minelayer and seaplane tender. She was completed and commissioned in 1898 and sunk in 1941, during World War II ...
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OMm35-class minelayer
The ''OMm35'' class was a group of two small minelayers of the Czechoslovak Navy. They were captured by Germany in 1939 and transferred to the Romanian Navy in 1941. The two vessels were then captured by Soviet forces in September 1944, their sub ...
– 2 ships (ex Czech)
Russia (Soviet Union)
Imperial Russian Navy
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Amur-class minelayer (1898)
The ''Amur''-class minelayers were the first purpose-built, ocean-going minelayers in the world.Russian Minelayers ''Amur'' and ''Yenisei'', p. 205 The class consisted of two vessels: ''Amur'' and ''Yenisei''. Both ships were constructed for th ...
Soviet Navy
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Alesha-class minelayer
The Alesha-class minelayers, known in the Soviet Union as Project 317 or the Alyosha Popovich class, were a class of three ships in service with the Soviet Navy beginning in 1967. Designated minelayers () by the Soviet Navy, they could also be us ...
– 3 ships
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Marti −1 ship (former imperial yacht)
Spain
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Júpiter-class minelayer – 4 ships
Sweden
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HSwMS Älvsborg – 1 ship (sold to Chile)
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HSwMS Älvsnabben (M01) – 1 ship
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HSwMS Carlskrona (P04) – 1 ship
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HSwMS Visborg – 1 ship
Taiwan
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Min Jiang-class minelayer – 4 ships
Turkey
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Ottoman minelayer Nusret – 1 ship
United Kingdom
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HMS Abdiel (1915)
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HMS Adventure (M23) 1 ship in service 1922 to 1944
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Abdiel-class minelayer
The ''Abdiel'' class were a class of six fast minelayers commissioned into the Royal Navy and active during the Second World War. They were also known as the ''Manxman'' class and as "mine-laying cruisers". These ships were armed with a wide v ...
– 6 ships in service 1941 to 1972
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Linnet-class minelayer – 3 ships in service 1938 to 1964
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HMS Plover (M26) – 1 ship in service 1927 to 1969
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HMS Agamemnon (M10)
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HMS Abdiel (N21) – 1967 to 1988
Yugoslavia
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Silba-class landing ship-minelayer −3 ships (subsequently to Croatia)
Citations
Bibliography
*{{cite book, last = Jentschura, first = Hansgeorg, first2 = Dieter , last2=Jung, first3=Peter , last3=Mickel, year = 1977, title = Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945, publisher = United States Naval Institute, location = Annapolis, Maryland, isbn = 978-0-87021-893-4, name-list-style=amp
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Class
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