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M1226 coastal minesweeper (1917/1943)

nearly sister-ship M1227 1943

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
M1226 (ex-RD9)     Tosi, Taranto, Italy   2.2.1917 7.1917 // 9.1943 sunk 11.1.1944

 

Displacement standard, t

156

Displacement full, t

217

Length, m

33.2 pp 35.5 oa

Breadth, m

5.88

Draught, m

2.11

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 Thornycroft boiler

Power, h. p.

964

Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts) 750(14)

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 Ansaldo 1916/1917, 2 x 1 - 6.5/100, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

22

Project history: Ex-Italian minesweeper captured 9.9.1943.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service:  M1226 was sunk by Allied aircraft at Piraeus 11.1.1944.

RD7 1940

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