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MOROCCAN NAVY (MOROCCO)

COASTAL FORCES

AGADIR submarine chaser (1942/1960)

Agadir 1965

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
 أغادير [Agadir] (ex-Goumier, ex-PC545)     Defoe, Bay City, USA 3.1942 8.5.1942 6.1942 // 1960 returned 1964

 

Displacement standard, t

325

Displacement full, t

430

Length, m

51.8 wl 52.9 oa

Breadth, m

7.06

Draught, m

2.36 full load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 General Motors diesels

Power, h. p.

2880

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

diesel oil 49
Endurance, nm(kts) 3000 (12)

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 22, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 5 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap Mk 20 ASWRL, 2 DCT, 2 DCR

Electronic equipment

SO radar, QHA sonar

Complement 65

Project history: USN PC 173ft submarine chaser, transferred to France in 1944 and became in 1960 the first ship in the new Moroccan Navy.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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