UJ2109 1943
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
UJ2109 (ex-12V4, ex-Widnes, ex-Withernsea) | Napier & Miller, Govan, UK | 1917 | 28.6.1918 | 1919 // 1.1943 | sunk 17.10.1943 |
Displacement standard, t |
710 |
Displacement full, t |
930 |
Length, m |
67.1 wl 70.4 oa |
Breadth, m |
8.70 |
Draught, m |
2.20 |
No of shafts |
2 |
Machinery |
2 VTE, 2 Yarrow boilers |
Power, h. p. |
2200 |
Max speed, kts |
12 |
Fuel, t |
coal 185 |
Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
2 x 1 - 88/42 SK C/35, 2 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 6 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 3 DCT |
Electronic equipment | presumably hydrophone |
Complement |
60 - 70 |
Project history: Ex-British minesweeper of Hunt later class. She ran aground 20.5.1941 in Suda Bay being attacked by German aircraft, later salvaged, repaired (as 12V4) and commissioned by Germans as submarine chaser UJ2109.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: UJ2109 was sunk by British destroyers in Akti Bay 17.10.1943.
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