Navy | Vessels Transferred | Service |
Albania | FM16 and FM23 | Became gunboats Sqipnia and Sqenderbeg until about 1935. |
Argentina | M48, M51-M53, M74, M79, M80, M90, M101 and M105 | Served as M1-M10 until 1937. |
Belgium | F16, F17, F18, F20, F30, F33, F35, D36, F40, F48, F56 and F57 | Became V1-V12. |
Colombia | M139 and M158 | Served as guard vessels Bogota and Cordoba from 1932, after previously operating as ferries in Norway and France respectively. |
Hungary | Either FM4, FM20 or FM 23 | Served as Minesweeper Koros from 1928-45. |
Italy | M119 and M120 | Served as minesweepers Meteo and Abastro respectively. |
Latvia | M68 | Mined on 29 Oct 1917 just outside Riga and grounded the following night at the mouth of the Daugava River. Salvaged by Russia in 1918. Served as Virsaitis in Latvian Navy from 1919 -40 when she was taken over by the Soviet Navy. |
Lithuania | M59 | Served as Presidential Yacht/Gunboat President Smetona from 1927, renamed Anastas Smetona in 1934, and then Primunas on 22 June 1940[1] |
Poland | FM2, FM27, FM28 and FM31 | Served as Jaskolka, Czaika, Rybita and Mewa respectively until about 1935 |
Portugal | FM19 | Became fishery protection vessel Raoul Cascaes until 1936 |
Persia | FM24 | Became gunboat Fatiya, being renamed Pahlavi and then Shahin before being scrapped in 1941. |
Yugoslavia | M97, M100, M106, M112, M121, and M144 | Served as minelayers Orao, Galeb, Gavran, Jastreb, Sokol and Kobac respectively. |
Note:
According to German sources, M59 was sold to France on 2 Aug 1922, and then sold to Lithuania in 1927. According to Russian sources, she was transferred to the Lithuanian Government on 2 Aug 1922 under the terms of the Peace of Paris.
Sources:
R Branfill-Cook, 2018, River Gunboats, Seaforth, Barnsley, p70.
A Dodson & S Cant, 2020, Spoils of War: The Fate of Enemy Fleets after the Two World Wars, Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, pp133-140.
H Ehlers, 1995, Naval Affairs in Latvia and Lithuania, Warship International, 32 (3), pp254-255, 265.
R Gardiner (ed), 1985, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906-21, Conway Maritime Press, London, pp186-187.
