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MINE WARFARE SHIPS

SEEHUND 1 minesweeping craft (1980-1982)

Seehund 1 1990

Names

Seehund 1 - 18

Builders

MAK, Kiel: Seehund 1-18

Commissioned

1980: Seehund 1-3

1981: Seehund 4-12

1982: Seehund 13-18

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

2015: Seehund 2, 11-13, 15, 17

in service (2019): Seehund 1, 3-10, 14, 16, 18

 

Displacement standard, t

91

Displacement full, t

99

Length, m

26.9

Breadth, m

4.60

Draught, m

1.40

No of shafts

1 Schöttel propeller / rudder

Machinery

1 MWM TRHS518A diesel

Power, h. p.

445

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 520(9)

Armament

magnetic minesweeping solenoid, 2x SDG-21 mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

0 / 3

Project history: Ordered in 1977 to operate three-apiece with the Type 351 control ships. Beginning in 1999, were converted to work with the Type 352 conversion control ships. Essentiallythey are remote-controlled, self-propelled magnetic minesweeping solenoids with all machinery highly shock-protected. Also able to stream two sets Type SDG-21 Oropesa mechanical minesweeping gear.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Seehund 17 2008

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