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RA11 minesweeping boat (1942/1943)

RA11 1943

Names

RA11 (ex-Master Standfast, ex-MGB508)

Builders

Camper & Nicholson, Gosport, UK: RA11

Commissioned

1942 // 11.1943: RA11

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

surrendered 5.1945: RA11 (to United Kingdom 5.1945)

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

95

Length, m

33.5 wl 35.7 oa

Breadth, m

5.79

Draught, m

1.14 normal 1.30 deep load

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Paxman diesels

Power, h. p.

3000

Max speed, kts

23

Fuel, t

diesel oil 19.1

Endurance, nm(kts) 2000(11)

Armament

1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, mechanical minesweeping gear

Electronic equipment type 286PU radar

Complement

21

Project history: ex-British blockade runner captured 2.11.1943.

Modernizations: none.

Naval service: No significant events.

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