Hämeenmaa-class minelayer
The Hämeenmaa-class minelayers is a two-vessel strong class of coastal minelayers, used by the Finnish Navy.
MLC Uusimaa
FNS Hämeenmaa
FNS Uusimaa main gun Bofors 57mm MK1
A minelayer is any warship, submarine, military aircraft or land vehicle deploying explosive mines. Since World War I the term "minelayer" refers specifically to a naval ship used for deploying naval mines. "Mine planting" was the term for installing controlled mines at predetermined positions in connection with coastal fortifications or harbor approaches that would be detonated by shore control when a ship was fixed as being within the mine's effective range.
Canadian sailors with a mine aboard the minelayer HMCS Sankaty off Halifax, Nova Scotia in World War II.
Amiral Murgescu of the Romanian Navy, a successful World War II minelayer that was also employed as a destroyer escort
Swedish minelayer Älvsborg (1974)
Finnish Navy Hämeenmaa-class minelayer FNS Uusimaa