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D1 minesweeper (1938)

D1 1940

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
D1 or RD1     CNR, Ancona   1937 1938 lost 9.1943

     

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

188

Length, m

33.4

Breadth, m

6.60

Draught, m

2.24

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 diesel

Power, h. p.

450

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 Ansaldo 1917, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

18

Project history: First attempt to build minesweeper of special purpose construction. Design was based on trawler hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: D1 was lost in September, 1943.

 

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