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IRANIAN NAVY (IRAN)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS AND CRAFT

SHAHROKH coastal minesweepers (1959-1962)

Shahrokh 1975

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
شهرخ [Shahrokh] 31, 1976- 301   Bellingham SY, USA   1959 10.1959 unarmed TS 1998
شهبز [Shahbaz] 32   Bellingham SY, USA   22.11.1958 9.1959 fire 1975
سيمورغ [Simorgh] 33, 1976- 302   Tacoma BB, USA   3.3.1961 9.1961 sunk 1981
كركس [Karkas] 34, 1976- 303   Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, USA   1962 5.1962 sunk 1982-1988

 

Displacement standard, t

360

Displacement full, t

400

Length, m

42.1 wl 44.3 oa

Breadth, m

8.10

Draught, m

2.10

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 General Motors diesels

Power, h. p.

880

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

2500(10)

Armament

1 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 24, mechanical, acoustic, magnetic minesweeping gear

Sensors

Decca 707 radar, UQS-1 sonar

Complement

39

Project history: USN Adjutant class coastal minesweepers, built under MDAP.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Shahbaz was lost through fire in 1975. Simorgh and Karkas were lost during Iran-Iraq war.

Simorgh 1975

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