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REGIA MARINA / ITALIAN NAVY (ITALY)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

RDV101 minesweeping boats (1944-1949)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
RDV101     Baglietto, Varazze     11.1944 // --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD101)
RDV102, 1949- DV111 1953- P401   Baglietto, Varazze     1949 discarded 6.1958
RDV103, 1949- DV112 1953- P402   Baglietto, Varazze     1949 discarded 7.1958
RDV104, 1949- DV114 1953- P404   Baglietto, Varazze     1949 survey vessel 6.1959
RDV105, 1949- DV115 1953- P405   Baglietto, Varazze     1949 discarded 9.1954
RDV106, 1949- DV131? 1953- P421   Baglietto, Varazze     1949? discarded 1.1959
RDV107, 1949- DV132? 1953- P422   Baglietto, Varazze     1949? discarded 9.1959
RDV108, 1949- DV133? 1953- P423   Baglietto, Varazze     1949? discarded 1959
RDV109     Baglietto, Varazze     3/1944 // --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD109)
RDV110     Baglietto, Varazze     5.1944 // --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD110)
RDV111     Baglietto, Varazze     9/1944 // --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD111)
RDV112     Baglietto, Varazze     1/1945 // --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD112)
RDV113, 1949- DV113 1953- P403   Baglietto, Varazze     9.1945 discarded 9.1965
RDV114     Baglietto, Varazze     --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD114)
RDV115     CRDA, Monfalcone     3/1945 // --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD115)
RDV116     CRDA, Monfalcone     1944 // --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD116)
RDV117     CRDA, Monfalcone     --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD117)
RDV118     CRDA, Monfalcone     --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD118)
RDV119     CRDA, Monfalcone     --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD119)
RDV120     CRDA, Monfalcone     --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD120)
RDV121     CRDA, Monfalcone     --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD121)
RDV122     CRDA, Monfalcone     --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD122)
RDV127     Celli, Venice     4/1945 // --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD127)
RDV128     Celli, Venice     --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD128)
RDV129     Celli, Venice     --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD129)
RDV130     Celli, Venice     --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD130)
RDV131, 1949- DV121 1953- P411   Celli, Venice     6.1949 discarded 1.1959
RDV132, 1949- DV122 1953- P412   Celli, Venice     6.1949 discarded 9.1959
RDV133, 1949- DV123 1953- P413   Celli, Venice     6.1949 discarded 1959
RDV134, 1949- DV124 1953- P414   Celli, Venice     6.1949 discarded 9.1959
RDV135     OTO, Livorno     --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD135)
RDV136, 1949- DV134 1953- P424   Picchiotti, Limite sul Arno     1949? discarded 1959
RDV140, 1949- DV135 1953- P425   Picchiotti, Limite sul Arno     1949? discarded 1959
RDV141     Soriente, Salerno   --- --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD141)
RDV146     Soriente, Salerno   --- --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD146)
RDV147     Costaguta, Genoa-Voltri   15.12.1944 --- captured incomplete by Germany 9.1943 (RD147)
RDV148, 1946- DV148, 1949- DV125 1953- P415   Costaguta, Genoa-Voltri     1946 discarded 7.1958
RDV149, 1945- DV149, 1949- DV116 1953- P406   Costaguta, Genoa-Voltri     1945 survey vessel 1960

 

Displacement standard, t

101

Displacement full, t

110

Length, m

34.0

Breadth, m

5.80

Draught, m

1.40 normal 1.50 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Isotta-Frascini petrol engines

RDV113, 149: 4 Fiat diesels

Power, h. p.

2300

RDV113, 149: 2000

Max speed, kts

17

Fuel, t

petrol 10

RDV113, 149: diesel oil 10

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 20/65 Breda 1940, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

24

Project history: Fast coastal minesweepers, Italian analogue of German R-boats. It is not exactly known which boats received in 1949 numbers DV131 - 135.

Modernizations: 1955, all survived: were converted to patrol boats; - sweeps.

Naval service: Some boats were captured by Germans.

DV124 1951

 

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