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ARDJOENO auxiliary minesweepers (1940 - 1941)


Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

Ardjoeno

Gedeh

Kawi

Lawoe

Salak

Soerabaja Droogdok, Surabaya: Ardjoeno, Gedeh, Kawi, Lawoe, Salak

1940 - 1941: Ardjoeno, Gedeh, Kawi, Lawoe, Salak

Ardjoeno (2.3.1942), Gedeh (2.3.1942), Kawi (2.3.1942), Lawoe (2.3.1942), Salak (2.3.1942)

None

None


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

51

Displacement full, t

74

Length, m

26.5 wl

Breadth, m

4.45

Draught, m

1.00

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Carmouth diesels

Power, h. p.

1000

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 37/45 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 7.7/94, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement 


Standard scale images


<i>Cha102</i> 1943
Cha102 1943


Project history

Former dispatch boats of Gouvernementmarine, converted to minesweepers.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

All were scuttled by crews at Surabaya. In 1942 - 1944 they were salvaged by Japanese and commissioned by IJN as auxiliary submarine chasers Cha102, 104, 109, 110 and 118. Cha109 was lost 14.8.1943, remaining after war were returned the Netherlands and sold.