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FINNISH NAVY (FINLAND)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

PUKKIO minesweepers / landing craft (1940-1947)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Pukkio     Valmet, Helsinki   1939 1940 stricken 1974, LCU 1979, sold 1982
Porkkala     Valmet, Helsinki   1940 1940 stricken 1974, LCU 1979, sold 1990
Pansio     Valmet, Helsinki   1940 5.1947 stricken 1979, LCU 1984, sold 1990

 

Displacement standard, t

162

Displacement full, t

?

Length, m

27.0

Breadth, m

6.70

Draught, m

2.50

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 diesel

Power, h. p.

300

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 1 x 1 - 20/60 Madsen, 20 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

 

Project history: Improvised minesweepers in tug hulls.

Modernizations: early 1940s, both completed: + 2 x 1 - 20/60 Madsen

early 1940s, all were armed with 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7, 1 x 1 - 20/20 Mk 7, 20 mines

1979, Pukkio, Porkkala; 1984, Pansio: armament consisted of 1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 7 (can be fitted), 20 mines or cargo

Naval service: Porkkala 28.11.1941 in Kojvisto Sound was stricken by a mine, laid by Soviet submarine Lembit and sank; by summer of 1942 she was salvaged and repaired.

Porkkala 1940

Porkkala 1988

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