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BELGIAN NAVY (BELGIUM)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

ADRIEN DE GERLACHE ocean minesweepers (1942-1945/1949-1953)

De Moor 1965

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Adrien de Gerlache (ex-Liberty) M900   Harland & Wolff, Belfast, UK 11/1943 22.8.1944 1/1945 // 11.1949 logistics vessel 1959
Georges Lecointe (ex-Cadmus) M901   Harland & Wolff, Belfast, UK 7/1941 27.5.1942 9/1942 // 1.1950 TS 1954, hulk 1957
Jan Van Haverbecke (ex-Ready) M902   Harland & Wolff, Belfast, UK 4/1942 11.1.1943 5/1943 // 7.1951 stricken 6.1960
A. F. Dufour (ex-Fancy) M903   Blyth SB, UK 2/1942 12.8.1942 12/1942 // 8.1951 stricken 1957
De Brouwer (ex-Spanker) M904, 1959- F904   Harland & Wolff, Belfast, UK 9/1942 20.4.1943 8/1943 // 2.1953 frigate 1959, stricken 1966
De Moor (ex-Rosario) M905, 1959- F905   Harland & Wolff, Belfast, UK 9/1942 3.4.1943 7/1943 // 1.1953 frigate 1959, stricken 1970

 

Displacement standard, t

1040

Displacement full, t

1335

Length, m

65.0 pp 68.6 oa

Breadth, m

10.8

Draught, m

3.20 deep load (3.58 by screws)

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 geared steam turbines sets, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers

Power, h. p.

2000

Max speed, kts

16

Fuel, t

oil 235

Endurance, nm(kts)

4000(10)

Armament

1 x 1 - 102/45 HA Mk 3, 4 õ 1 - 40/60 Mk 7, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (92 in ASW role), mechanical, magnetic, acoustic minesweeping gear

Electronic equipment type 271 or type 272, type 291 (some) radars, type 128 sonar

Complement

101

Project history: Former British ocean minesweepers of Algerine class.

Modernizations: 1959, De Brouwer, De Moor: - minesweeping gear

1966, De Moor: - 1 x 1 - 102/45; + 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7

Naval service: No significant events.

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