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CANADIAN NAVY - CANADA

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

BLUETHROAT minelayer (1955)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Bluethroat NPC114   G. T. Davie, Lauzon 31.10.1952 15.9.1955 28.11.1955 cable layer 1959

Displacement standard, t

785

Displacement full, t

870

Length, m

47.0

Breadth, m

9.90

Draught, m

3.00

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 diesels

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

mines

Electronic equipment radar

Complement

27

Project history: Mine and magnetic loop layer in the trawler hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Bluethroat became cable layer in 1959 and research ship in 1964.

Bluethroat 1977

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