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KAMERUN minelayers (1940 / 1940)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Kamerun (ex-Rauma) NO01, 1941- V5908   Nylands, Oslo, Norway   1939 1940 // 4.1940 surrendered 5.1945, to Norway 1947 (Rauma)
Togo (ex-Otra) NO02, 3.1941- V5909, 1941- V6512   Nylands, Oslo, Norway   5.8.1939 1940 // 4.1940 surrendered 5.1945, to Norway 1947 (Otra)


Technical data


Displacement standard, t320
Displacement full, t370
Length, m

50.9 wl 52.1 oa

Breadth, m

7.05

Draught, m

1.83 normal load 2.00 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 1 water-tube boiler

Power, h. p.

900

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, toil
Endurance, nm(kts)1400(9)
Armament1 x 1 - 76/50 Bofors, 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 20 mines
Complement18


Standard scale images


<i>Kamerun</i> 1940
Kamerun 1940


Project history

Former Norwegian minesweepers of Otra class, captured in Norway in April-May, 1940. Commissioned as minelayers / patrols, Kamerun 18.4.1940 and Togo 10.4.1940.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Both were returned to Norway in 1947 and BU in 1963.