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KIWI trawlers (1941)


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  Tui 1946  

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Kiwi (RNZN) T102 - P102   Robb, Leith 3/1940 7.7.1941 10.1941 sold to BU 9.1963
Moa (RNZN) T233   Robb, Leith 3/1940 15.5.1941 12.1941 sunk 7.4.1943
Tui (RNZN) T234 - P33   Robb, Leith 3/1940 26.8.1941 12.1941 survey vessel 1955


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

600

Displacement full, t825
Length, m47.6 pp
Breadth, m9.22
Draught, m3.51 deep load
No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.1000
Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

oil 220

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 102/44 BL Mk IX, 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (40), mechanical minesweeping gear

Electronic equipmenttype 122 sonar
Complement35


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  <i>Tui</i> 1946  
  Tui 1946  


Project history

ASW patrol trawlers. Differed from the majority of other British trawlers by not coal, but oil-firing boilers. Were sometimes classified as corvettes.

Modernizations

1940s, all survived: + type 271 or type 290 radar

Naval service

Moa was sunk by Japanese aircraft. Survived ships were reclassified as escorts after war.