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MOROCCAN NAVY (MOROCCO)

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EL LAHIQ corvette (1940/1961)

El Lahiq 1965

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
إل لهق [El Lahiq] (ex-Chamois, ex-Annamite) 33   Arsenal de Lorient, France 4.1938 17.6.1939 2.1940 // 1961 returned 1967

 

Displacement standard, t

660

Displacement full, t

900

Length, m

73.8 pp 78.3 oa

Breadth, m

8.70

Draught, m

3.28

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Sulzer diesels

Power, h. p.

4000

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

diesel oil 82

Endurance, nm(kts) 10000(9)

Armament

2 x 1 - 105/45 SK C/32, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10

Electronic equipment radar

Complement

106

Project history: French Chamois class minesweeping sloop, first large warship of new Moroccan Navy.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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