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PARAKRAMA minesweeper (1943/1958)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
තනමින් [Parakrama] (ex-Pickle) M293   Harland & Wolff, Belfast, UK 1/1943 3.8.1943 10/1943 // 7.1958 BU 1964


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

980

Displacement full, t

1265

Length, m

68.6

Breadth, m

10.8

Draught, m

3.12 - 3.20 deep load (3.58 by screws)

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 geared steam turbines sets, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers

Power, h. p.

2000

Max speed, kts

16.5

Fuel, t

oil 235

Endurance, nm(kts)

6000(12)

Armament

1 x 1 - 102/45 CP Mk 2, 4 х 1 - 40/60 Mk 7, 4 DCT, 2 DCR, mechanical, magnetic, acoustic minesweeping gear

Electronic equipmenttype 271 or type 272 radar, type 128 sonar
Complement

85 - 138



Standard scale images


<i>Parakrama </i>1960
Parakrama 1960


Project history

RN Algerine class minesweeper.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.