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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