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ABDIEL training minelayer (1967)


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Abdiel 1980

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Abdiel N21   Thornycroft, Woolston 23.5.1966 27.1.1967 17.10.1967 BU 9.1988


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1375

Displacement full, t1460
Length, m

74.7 pp 80.4 oa

Breadth, m

11.7

Draught, m

2.85

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Paxman Ventura 16-YSCM diesels

Power, h. p.

2690

Max speed, kts

16

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7, 44 mines

Electronic equipmenttype 978 radar
Complement98


Standard scale images


<i>Abdiel </i>1970
Abdiel 1970
<i>Abdiel </i>1979
Abdiel 1979


Graphics


<i>Abdiel </i>1980
Abdiel 1980


Project history

Designed to lay exercise minefields and to support mine countermeasures forces.

Modernizations

late 1970s: - type 978 radar; + type 1006 radar

Naval service

No significant events.