Cargo capacities of minelayers of several countries compared according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad 1909-1910 no. 11

An item referring to the magazine Le Yacht compared the mine cargo capacity of several minelayers. So could the French minelayer Cosmao (1) of 1.877 ton carry 250 mines with her, the Russian minelayer Zabaikaletz (2)  (a former Strashni-destroyer) of 508 ton 400 mines, the German minelayer Albatross (3) of 1.970 also 400 mines and the British minelayer HMS Apollo (4) of 3.400 ton 450 mines. The author had some doubts about the carrying capacity of the Russian minelayer regarded her quite small displacement compared with the other ships.

Notes

1. A former armoured cruiser of the Troude-class, launched in August 1889, displacement full load 1.923 tons, stricken in 1922 and broken up.

2. Of the Ukraina-class destroyers with a displacement of 580 tons (normal), launched on 27 April 1906 and broken up in 1922l

3. Of the Nautilus-class with a displacement of 2.506 metric tons/2.466 long tons or 2.762 short tons. She could carry with her 288 mines and not the 400 mentioned in the item. Laid down in 1907 at the shipyard of AG Weser, Bremen was she launched on 23 October that same year, commissioned on 19 May 1908, decommissioned on 21 January 1919 and finally stricken on 21 March 1921.

4. Former British 2^nd class-cruiser laid down at the Chatham Dockyard in April 1889, converted in 1909 into a minelayer.