Name Marburg (M1080) Commissioned 11 June 1959 Launched 4 August 1958 Draft 3.71 m | Namesake Koblenz Decommissioned 1976 Length 47 m Builder Bremen | |
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Refit 1960–64, to Type 331 minehunter Fate donated to Lithuania, 2001 | ||
LKL Kursis (M51) is a minehunter of the Lithuanian Naval Force. Built in West Germany in 1958 as Marburg (M1080), a Lindau-class (or Type 320) minesweeper for the German Navy, she was upgraded to a Type 331 minehunter in the 1970s. Germany donated Marburg in 2001 to the Lithuanian Naval Force, which renamed the ship Kursis. The vessel augmented the Squadron of Mine-hunters, which had been established in 1999 with the similar donation of sister ship Koblenz, which became Sūduvis (M52).
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