KIWI armed trawlers (1941)
Kiwi 1952
Kiwi 1960
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Kiwi | T102, 1950- P102 | Robb, Leith, UK | 3/1940 | 7.7.1941 | 10.1941 | sold to BU 9.1963 | |
| Moa | T233 | Robb, Leith, UK | 3/1940 | 15.5.1941 | 12.1941 | sunk 7.4.1943 | |
| Tui | T234, 1955- P33 | Robb, Leith, UK | 3/1940 | 26.8.1941 | 12.1941 | survey vessel 1955 |
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Displacement standard, t |
600 |
|
Displacement full, t |
825 |
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Length, m |
47.6 pp |
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Breadth, m |
9.22 |
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Draught, m |
3.51 deep load |
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No of shafts |
1 |
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Machinery |
1 VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler |
|
Power, h. p. |
1000 |
|
Max speed, kts |
14 |
|
Fuel, t |
oil 220 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
|
Armament |
1 x 1 - 102/44 BL Mk IX, 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (40), mechanical minesweeping gear |
| Electronic equipment | type 122 sonar |
|
Complement |
35 |
Project history: ASW patrol trawlers. Differed from the majority of other British trawlers by not coal, but oil-firing boilers. Were sometimes classified as corvettes.
Modernizations: 1940s, all survived: + type 271 or type 290 radar
Naval service: Moa was sunk by Japanese aircraft 7.4.1943. Survived ships were reclassified as escorts after war.
Tui 1946
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