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D1 minesweeper (1938)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
D1 or RD1     CNR, Ancona   1937 1938 lost 9.1943


Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement full, t188
Length, m

33.4

Breadth, m

6.60

Draught, m

2.24

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 diesel

Power, h. p.

450

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 Ansaldo 1917, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

18



Standard scale images


D1 1940
D1 1940


Project history

First attempt to build minesweeper of special purpose construction. Design was based on trawler hull.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

D1 was lost in September, 1943.