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MINE WARFARE SHIPS
"HUNT" mine warfare ships (BRECON) (1980 - 1989)


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Ledbury 1981

Ships


Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Brecon

M29

4240 Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston 15.9.1975 21.6.1978 21.3.1980 retired 9.2005
Ledbury M30 4241 Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston 5.10.1977 5.12.1979 11.6.1981 in service (2019)
Cattistock M31 4242 Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston 20.6.1979 22.1.1981 16.6.1982 in service (2019)
Cottesmore M32 1025 Yarrow SB, Scotstoun 27.9.1979 9.2.1982 24.6.1983 retired 9.2005, to Lithuania (Skalvis)
Brocklesby M33 4243 Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston 8.5.1980 12.1.1982 3.2.1983 in service (2019)
Middleton M34 1026 Yarrow SB, Scotstoun 1.7.1980 27.4.1983 15.8.1984 in service (2019)
Dulverton M35 4244 Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston 1.6.1981 3.11.1982 4.11.1983 retired 9.2005, to Lithuania (Kuršis)
Bicester M36 4254 Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston 2.1.1985 4.6.1985 14.2.1986 to Greece 6.2000 (Ευρώπη [Evropi])
Chiddingfold M37 4245 Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston   6.10.1983 26.10.1984 in service (2019)
Atherstone M38 4255 Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston 9.1.1984 1.3.1986 30.1.1987 stricken 12.2017
Hurworth M39 4246 Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston 1.1983 25.9.1984 19.7.1985 in service (2019)
Berkeley M40 4256 Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston 9.9.1985 3.12.1986 14.1.1988 to Greece 2.2001 (Καλλιστώ [Kallisto])
Quorn M41 4257 Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston 2.6.1986 23.1.1988 21.4.1989 stricken 12.2017


Technical data


Displacement standard, t625
Displacement full, t

725

Length, m

56.6 pp 60.0 oa

Breadth, m

9.85

Draught, m

2.20 hull 3.40 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Ruston-Paxman Deltic 9-59K diesels

Power, h. p.

1900

Max speed, kts

17

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)1500(12)
Armament

1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 9, 2 x 1 - 7.6/90, equipment for 6 - 7 divers, 2x PAP 104 Mk 3 USV, TA.6 or MSSA Mk 1 acoustic, M.Mk 11 or MS14 magnetic, M.Mk 8 Oropesa mechanical minesweeping gear, decompression chamber; provision for 2 x 1 - 20/90 GAM-B01

Electronic equipment

type 1006(4) or type 1007 radar, type 193M Mod.1 sonar; provision for UAR Matilda ECM suite, 2x DLJ(2) floating decoy launchers, 2x DLK decoy launchers, DBA(4) CAAIS CCS

Complement

45



Standard scale images


<i>Brecon </i>1990
Brecon 1990
<i>Ledbury </i>2010
Ledbury 2010


Graphics


<i>Middleton </i>2008 <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
Middleton 2008 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.
<i>Ledbury </i>1981
Ledbury 1981


Project history

Concurrent with the building of Wilton, work began on a new generation of MCMVs or mine countermeasures vessels, a new term signifying that the vessels were capable of both sweeping and hunting. They were the largest GRP ships in the world, with Plessey Type 193M sonar, elaborate position-fixing gear, hydraulic drive and a bow-thruster to permit manoeuvring at low speed. Every effort was made to eliminate the magnetic 'signature' and to cut out radiated noise (including a near non-magnetic version of the Deltic diesel) but at the same time providing a ship capable of deep-sea passages. On a cost per ton basis, they were some of the most expensive warships ever built, £24m for Brecon and £15m for the rest.

Modernizations

1991, Middleton, Chiddingfold, Hurworth, Berkeley, Quorn: + 2 x 1 - 20/90 GAM-B01

1992, Middleton, Chiddingfold, Hurworth, Berkeley, Quorn: - 2 x 1 - 20/90

early 1990s, all: - 1 x 1 - 40/60; + 1 x 1 - 30/75 DES-30B

1997, Cottesmore; 1998-2000, Brecon, Dulverton, for patrol duties: - all minesweeping gear and USVs; + 2 articulating cranes, 3 RIBs

2003, Ledbury, Brocklesby (temporarily only for deployment): + SWIMS minesweeping system

2003, Hurworth; 2004, Cattistock, Brocklesby, Chiddingfold; 2005, Quorn; 2006, Ledbury, Middleton, Atherstone: - 2x PAP-104 Mk 3 USV, type 193M Mod. 1 sonar, CAAIS CCS; + 2 Seafox USV, type 2193 sonar (with type 2059 submersible tracking set), Mil Cross sonar, NAUTIS III mine warfare CCS

2009, Ledbury; 2009-2016, others: + control equipment for REMUS 600 or 2 FAST minesweeping drones

2012, Chiddingfold; 2014, Middleton; 2015, Ledbury; 2012-2016, others: re-engined with 2 Caterpillar C-32 ACERT diesels (2000hp)

Naval service

No significant events.