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GUNUNDAAL auxiliary minesweeper (/1992)

Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Gunundaal (ex-Flamingo Bay)

         

// 11.5.1992

stricken 12.1992

 

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

27.5

Breadth, m

 

Draught, m

 

No of shafts

 

Machinery

 

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

Mini-Dyad magnetic minesweeping gear

Electronic equipment

 

Complement

 

Project history: Former Fishing boat, acquired by RAN to use as COOP minesweeper.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: During an emergency docking in December 1992 Gunundaal was found to be unseaworthy and stricken.

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