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ORP Gryf (English: "Griffin") was a large Polish Navy minelayer, sunk during the 1939 German invasion of PolandShe was one of two large Polish ships that were not evacuated to Great Britain during Operation Peking prior to the outbreak of the Polish Defensive War (Wicher was the other). [1]
Finnish minelayer Pohjanmaa 1 ship in service from ... French cruiser Pluton 1 ship in service 1929 to 1939; Pluton-class minelayer (1912) 2 ships in service 1914 to ...
destroyer minelayer: 1,090 29 November 1918 Damaged 17 February 1945, scuttled 16 July 1945. Gryf Poland: Gryf: minelayer: 2,085 27 February 1938 sunk 3 September 1939 Icarus Royal Navy: I: destroyer minelayer: 1,370 3 May 1937 paid off 29 August 1946, scrapped 29 October 1946. Ilex: I: destroyer minelayer: 1,370 7 July 1937 paid off August ...
The ship way allocated to the Stranraer - Larne route and entered service on 8 July 1939. [2] [3] In September 1939, after just two months service, Princess Victoria was requisitioned and converted to an auxiliary minelayer. She was commissioned as HMS Princess Victoria and given the pennant number M03. She had a capacity of 244 mines. [1]
HNoMS Otra was an Otra-class minesweeper built in 1939 for the Royal Norwegian Navy.Captured by the Germans during the 1940 invasion of Norway and renamed Togo, she was returned to the Norwegians in 1946.
1939 Miner II: Philip and Son 1939 Miner III: Philip and Son 1939 Miner IV: Philip and Son 1940 Miner V: Philip and Son 1940 Sunk as target on 6 June 1970 [2] Miner VI: Philip and Son 1942 M7: Singapore Dockyard - Seized in Singapore by Japanese forces before completed [1] Miner VII: Philip and Son 1944 Miner VIII: Philip and Son 1943 Broken up ...
The Pukkio-class minelayers were class of coastal minelayers used by the Finnish Navy during World War II.. Pukkio (1939) and Porkkala (1940) were completed in time for them to participate in the war, but Pansio (1947) was completed only after the war when the resources needed for ship construction were again available.
HMS Port Quebec was a British motor ship that was designed and launched in 1939 to be the refrigerated cargo ship Port Quebec, but completed in 1940 as an auxuiliary minelayer. In 1944 she was converted into an aircraft component repair ship and renamed HMS Deer Sound. In 1947 she was returned to her owner, Port Line, and completed as a cargo ship.