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RD101 minesweeping boats

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
RD101 (ex-RDV101)   Baglietto, Varazze     11/1944 scuttled 24/4/1945
RD102 (ex-RDV102)   Baglietto, Varazze     --- // 1949 scuttled incomplete 24/4/1945, completed for Italy (DV111)
RD103 (ex-RDV103)   Baglietto, Varazze     --- // 1949 scuttled incomplete 24/4/1945, completed for Italy (DV112)
RD104 (ex-RDV104)   Baglietto, Varazze     --- // 1949 scuttled incomplete 24/4/1945, completed for Italy (DV114)
RD105 (ex-RDV105)   Baglietto, Varazze     --- // 1949 scuttled incomplete 24/4/1945, completed for Italy (DV115)
RD106 (ex-RDV106)   Baglietto, Varazze     --- scuttled incomplete 24/4/1945
RD107 (ex-RDV107)   Baglietto, Varazze     --- scuttled incomplete 24/4/1945
RD108 (ex-RDV108)   Baglietto, Varazze     --- scuttled incomplete 24/4/1945
RD109 (ex-RDV109)   Baglietto, Varazze     3/1944 scuttled 24/4/1945
RD110 (ex-RDV110)   Baglietto, Varazze     5/1944 sunk 3/6/1944
RD111 (ex-RDV111)   Baglietto, Varazze     9/1944 scuttled 24/4/1945
RD112 (ex-RDV112)   Baglietto, Varazze     1/1945 scuttled 24/4/1945
RD113 (ex-RDV113)   Baglietto, Varazze     --- // 9/1945 completed for Italy (DV113)
RD114 (ex-RDV114)   Baglietto, Varazze     --- BU incomplete 1945
RD115 (ex-RDV115)   CRDA, Monfalcone     3/1945 sunk 16/3/1945
RD116 (ex-RDV116)   CRDA, Monfalcone     1944 scuttled 2/5/1945
RD117 (ex-RDV117)   CRDA, Monfalcone     --- BU incomplete 1945
RD118 (ex-RDV118)   CRDA, Monfalcone     --- BU incomplete 1945
RD119 (ex-RDV119)   CRDA, Monfalcone     --- BU incomplete 1945
RD120 (ex-RDV120)   CRDA, Monfalcone     --- BU incomplete 1945
RD121 (ex-RDV121)   CRDA, Monfalcone     --- BU incomplete 1945
RD122 (ex-RDV122)   CRDA, Monfalcone     --- BU incomplete 1945
RD127 (ex-RDV127)   Celli, Venice     4/1945 demolished 30/4/1945
RD128 (ex-RDV128)   Celli, Venice     --- demolished incomplete 30/4/1945
RD129 (ex-RDV129)   Celli, Venice     --- demolished incomplete 30/4/1945
RD130 (ex-RDV130)   Celli, Venice     --- demolished incomplete 30/4/1945
RD131 (ex-RDV131)   Celli, Venice     --- // 1949 completed for Italy (DV121)
RD132 (ex-RDV132)   Celli, Venice     --- // 1949 completed for Italy (DV122)
RD133 (ex-RDV133)   Celli, Venice     --- // 1949 completed for Italy (DV123)
RD134 (ex-RDV134)   Celli, Venice     --- // 1949 completed for Italy (DV124)
RD135 (ex-RDV135)   OTO, Leghorn     --- scuttled incomplete 4/1945
RD136 (ex-RDV136)   Picchiotti, Limite sul Arno     --- scuttled incomplete 4/1945
RD140 (ex-RDV140)   Picchiotti, Limite sul Arno     --- scuttled incomplete 4/1945
RD141 (ex-RDV141)   Soriente, Salerno   --- --- BU incomplete 1944
RD146 (ex-RDV146)   Soriente, Salerno   --- --- BU incomplete 1944
RD147 (ex-RDV147)   Costaguta, Genoa-Voltri   15/12/1944 --- scuttled incomplete 25/4/1945
RD148 (ex-RDV148)   Costaguta, Genoa-Voltri     --- // 1946 completed for Italy (DV148)
RD149 (ex-RDV149)   Costaguta, Genoa-Voltri     --- // 1945 completed for Italy (DV149)

 

Displacement standard, t

101

Displacement full, t

110

Length, m

34.0

Breadth, m

5.80

Draught, m

1.40 normal 1.50 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

Isotta-Frascini petrol engines

RDV113, 149: 4 Fiat diesels

Power, h. p.

2300

RD113, 149: 2000

Max speed, kts

17

Fuel, t

petrol 10

RDV113, 149: diesel oil 10

Endurance, nm(kts) 2000(13)

Armament

1 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, sweeps

Complement

24

Ship project history: Ships of RD series represented ex-Italian minesweeping boats of RDV type, development of VAS. They were captured on Italian shipyards in September, 1943 and finished for Kriegsmarine with Italian engines and armament. 14 more boats were completed after war for Italian Navy.

Modernizations: 1944 - 1945, some completed: AA artillery was strengthened.

Naval service: RD101, RD109, RD111 and RD112 were scuttled 24/4/1945 at Genoa. RD110 was damaged by Allied aircraft and ran aground 3/6/1944 at Bocca de Ceccina. RD115 was sunk by Allied aircraft 16/3/1945 at Monfalcone. RD116 was scuttled 2/5/1945 at Tagliamento. RD127 was destroyed by crew 30/4/1945 at Monfalcone.

RD101

 

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