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UJ6077 submarine chasers (1934/1944)

Ch4 1940

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
UJ6077 (ex-Ch4)     A C de Bretagne, Nantes, France 1933 1934 1934 // 1944 sunk 5.7.1944
UJ6085 (ex-Ch1)     A C de Bretagne, Nantes, France 1932 1933 1934 // 4.1944 sunk 6.8.1944

 

Displacement standard, t

148

Displacement full, t

180

Length, m

48.1

Breadth, m

5.50

Draught, m

1.90

No of shafts

2

Machinery

UJ6077: 2 Sulzer diesels

UJ6085: 2 MAN diesels

Power, h. p.

UJ6077: 2695

UJ6085: 2400

Max speed, kts

UJ6077: 23.6

UJ6085: 20

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Armament

1 x 1 - 75/50 M1927, 2 x 1 - 13/76, 4 DCT, 1 DCR

Electronic equipment hudrophone
Complement

33

Project history: ex-French submarine chasers, scuttled by own crews in Toulon in November 1942, salvaged in January, 1944 and repaired by Germans.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: UJ6085 was sunk by Allied aircraft 6.8.1944 at Toulon. UJ6077 was sunk by Allied destroyer and aircraft 17.8.1944 off Cape Croisette.

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