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COAST GUARD

YARA coast guard patrol vessel (1895)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Yara     Middlesbrough, UK   1893 1895 survey vessel late 1940s

 

Displacement normal, t

449

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

47.2

Breadth, m

7.92

Draught, m

3.96

No of shafts

 

Machinery

 

Power, h. p.

600

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

coal 150

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss Mk I

Complement

53

Project history: Two-masted one-funneled wooden gunboat.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: During WWII, despite old age, Yara was in good condition.

Yara 1937

Yara 1952

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