Construction status German sperrbrecher KSB 1 in July 1944

Impression Sperrbrechers KSB-7 and KSB-8©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships by German shipyards status dated July 1944. Type Kriegssperrbrecher. Yard number 853. Yard Stettiner Oderwerke AG für Schiff- und Maschinenbau, Stettin, Germany [nowadays Szczecin, Poland). Ordered on 20 February 1943. Date to be completed was open due to missing short deliveries and additional dates were to be later announced.(1)

Note

1. The main purpose of a so-called sperrbrecher was to create safe passages through minefields for other ships to be used. For detonating magnetic mines they were fitted out with a kind of magnetic field generator.

Source

Max Weber Netzwerk Osteuropa. German-Russian project digitization German documents in Russian Archives 500-findbuch 12453. Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine (OKM)-file 147.