Minesweeper class "Minensuchboot 43", 1944Interesting features I identify in her are a pair of waist-mounted torpedo tubes and a pair of rangefinders mounted on the bridge near anti-aircraft guns. My guess is that the rangefinders were for "surveying" a seascape for purposes of precisely laying (or sweeping) a minefield, but possibly they were just for helping direct gunnery. There is more data on this class at German-Navy.de.
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