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ROYAL INDIAN MARINE - INDIAN NAVY (INDIA)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

MMS97 motor minesweepers (1943-1946)

MMS90 1942

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
MMS97     Brunton & Co, Cochin   6.1941 3/1946 sold 11.1946
MMS98     Brunton & Co, Cochin   7.1941 3/1946 sold 11.1946
MMS129     Brunton & Co, Cochin   5.3.1942 5/1943 to Pakistan 1948 (Mujahid)
MMS130     Brunton & Co, Cochin   5.3.1942 6/1943 sold 1954
MMS131     Brunton & Co, Cochin   7.5.1942 3/1944 to Pakistan 1948 (Ghazi)
MMS132, 1944- Barq     Brunton & Co, Cochin   21.5.1942 1/1944 to Pakistan 1947 (Barq)
MMS145     Colombo Port Commissioners, Ceylon   28.9.1943 4.1945 sold 1946
MMS148     H. Stone, Mandapan, Burma   1.1942 11.1946 stricken 11.1946
MMS151     Brunton & Co, Cochin   12.1941 12.1945 sold 11.1949
MMS154     H. Stone, Coconada   12.1941 1.1946 DY craft 1960

Displacement standard, t

255

Displacement full, t

295

Length, m

36.4

Breadth, m

7.14

Draught, m

2.67 deep load

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 diesel

Power, h. p.

375 - 500

Max speed, kts

10 - 11

Fuel, t

diesel oil 24 - 26

Endurance, nm(kts) 2400(9.5)

Armament

(1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 2 - 12.7/62) or 2 x 2 - 12.7/62 or 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, mechanical, magnetic, acoustic minesweeping gear

1946: 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, mechanical, magnetic, acoustic minesweeping gear

Complement

20

Project history: Very successful design of wooden coastal minesweeper able to sweep magnetic and acoustic mines.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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