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INDIAN NAVY (INDIA)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

CUDDALORE coastal minesweepers (1955-1956/1956, 1956)

Cuddalore 1975

Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

कुड्डलौर [Cuddalore] (ex-Wennington)

M1190, 1975- M90

 

Doig, Grimsby

1954

6.4.1955

1955 // 8.1956

deleted 1987

कण्णनौर [Cannanore] (ex-Whiton)

M1191, 1975- M91

 

Fleetlands, Gosport

1955

30.1.1956

1956

deleted 1987

कारवाड़ [Karwar] (ex-Overton)

M1197, 1975- M92

 

Camper & Nicholson, Gosport

1955

28.1.1956

8/1956

deleted 1986

काकीनाड़ा [Kakinada] (ex-Durweston)

M1201, 1975- M93

 

Dorset Yacht, Poole, Poole

1954

18.8.1955

1956 // 8.1956

deleted 1987

 

 

Displacement standard, t

360

Displacement full, t

425

Length, m

42.7 pp 46.3 oa

Breadth, m

8.80

Draught, m

2.50 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Napier Deltic diesels

Power, h. p.

3000

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, t

diesel oil 45

Endurance, nm(kts) 3000(8)

Armament

1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 9, LL mechanical/magnetic/acoustic minesweeping gear

Electronic equipment

type 978 radar

Complement

29

Project history: Former British Ton class coastal minesweepers, two were transferred before and two after commissioning by RN.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Kakinada 1977

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