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R41 group patrol craft (1943/1962-1963)


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No15 1972

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
  15   Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder, Germany     1943 // 1962-63 sunk 7.1974
      Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder, Germany     1943 // 1962-63 sunk 7.1974
      Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder, Germany     1943 // 1962-63 sunk 8.8.1964


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

125

Displacement full, t

135

Length, m

36.8 wl 37.8-38.6 oa

Breadth, m

5.82

Draught, m

1.40 normal 1.51 deep load

No of shafts

2 Voith-Schneider

Machinery

2 MWM or MAN diesels

Power, h. p.

1800

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

diesel oil 11.1

Endurance, nm(kts)900(15)
Armament

1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7, (0 - 2) x 1 - 20/70 Mk 7

Electronic equipmentpresumably radar
Complement

30



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Project history

Former German R41 class minesweeping boats, taken up in 1962-63 from mercantile use and rearmed as patrols.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

One was destroyed by Turkish air attack 8.8.1964 at Xeros. Fates of two other ships are unknown, probably they were lost during the Turkish operations of July 1974.