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TEXEL motor minesweepers (1942 - 1943, 1941 - 1942 / 1944 - 1945)


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Vlieland 1947 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Texel (ex-MMS173) J673   J. W. & A. Upham, Brixham, UK   21.12.1941 5.1942 stricken 11.1945
Terschelling (ex-MMS174) J674   J. W. & A. Upham, Brixham, UK   15.3.1942 7/1942 sunk 12.7.1942
Marken (ex-MMS227) J727   Frank Curtis, Par, UK   15.7.1942 10/1942 sunk 20.5.1944
Ameland (ex-MMS231) J731, 1946- MV5, 1950- M861   J. W. & A. Upham, Brixham, UK   1942 12/1942 stricken 1957
Beveland (ex-MMS237) J737, 1946- MV6, 1950- M862 29 Wivenhoe Shipyard, UK   1943 4/1943 stricken 1956
Marken (ex-MMS54) J554, 1946- MV7, 1950- M863   Herd & McKenzie, Buckie, UK   22.9.1941 12.1941 // 8.1944 stricken 1957
Putten (ex-MMS138) J638, 1946- MV8, 1950- M864   Husband Yacht Yard, Marshwood, UK   9.11.1942 5/1943 stricken 1957
Rozenburg (ex-MMS292) J792, 1946- MV9, 1950- M865   Frank Curtis, Par, UK   1943 4/1943 stricken 1957
Terschelling (ex-MMS234) J734, 1946- MV10, 1950- M866   J. L. Bolson, Poole, UK   1943 6/1943 stricken 1957
Texel (ex-MMS73) MV11, 1950- M867   East Anglian Constructors, Oulton Broad, UK   13.6.1942 9.1942 // 11.1945 stricken 1957
Vlieland (ex-MMS226) J726, 1946- MV12, 1950- M868   Frank Curtis, Par, UK   15.8.1942 10/1942 sunk 11.1951


Technical data


Displacement standard, t255
Displacement full, t295
Length, m36.4
Breadth, m7.14
Draught, m2.67 deep load
No of shafts1
Machinery

1 Crossley or Newbury diesel

Power, h. p.

480

Max speed, kts

10.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil 24 - 26

Endurance, nm(kts)550(10)
Armament

1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 2 - 12.7/62, mechanical, magnetic, acoustic minesweeping gear

Complement20


Standard scale images


<i>Texel</i> 1942
Texel 1942


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<i>Vlieland</i> 1947 <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
Vlieland 1947 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.


Project history

Standard British motor minesweepers, transferred for replacement of the mobilised trawlers. Very successful design of wooden coastal minesweeper able to sweep magnetic and acoustic mines.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Terschelling was sunk by German aircraft 12.7.1942. Marken was lost 20.5.1944 on a mine in a mouth of Thames. Vlieland was sunk in November, 1951 at coast of New Guinea.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.