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Names |
Smeroe Merbaboe Rindjani Merapi Slamat Tjerimai |
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Builders |
Soerabaja Droogdok, Surabaya: Smeroe, Merbaboe, Rindjani Verenigde Prauwenveren, Batavia: Merapi, Slamat, Tjerimai |
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Commissioned |
1941: Smeroe, Merbaboe, Rindjani |
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Losses |
captured incomplete by Japan 3.1942: Merapi, Slamat, Tjerimai |
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Transfers |
None |
| Discarding | 1946: Smeroe, Merbaboe, Rindjani |
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Displacement standard, t |
60 |
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Displacement full, t |
80 |
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Length, m |
21.0 pp 22.7 oa |
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Breadth, m |
4.35 |
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Draught, m |
1.52 |
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No of shafts |
1 |
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Machinery |
1 Caterpillar diesel |
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Power, h. p. |
135 |
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Max speed, kts |
10 |
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Fuel, t |
diesel oil |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
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Armament |
2 x 1 - 7.7/94, mechanical minesweeping gear |
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Complement |
14 |
Project history: Former dispatch boats of Gouvernementmarine, moderated copy of DEFG type. They were converted to minesweepers before completion. According to some information, they were armed with one 12.7mm MG. Merapi and Slamat were blown up on a slipway in March, 1942. Tjerimai was completed by Japanese as auxiliary submarine chaser Cha101 and sunk 8.4.1945 by American aircraft at coast of Celebes.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Merbaboe, Rindjani and Smeroe in March, 1942 escaped to Australia, they were returned to the Dutch East Indies after war, the further fate is unknown.
Smeroe
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