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UJ2109 submarine chaser (1919/1943)

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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