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SOVIET NAVY (USSR)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

Ya-6 type minesweeping boats (1944)

KEMTShch-594 1943

Names

ÊÝÌÒÙ-594 - 597 [KEMTShch-594 - 597]

ÊÝÌÒÙ-779 - 782 [KEMTShch-779 - 782]

Builders

345 Yd, Yaroslavl: KEMTShch-594-597, 779-782

Completed

1944: KEMTShch-594-597, 779-782

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

late 1940s: all

 

 

Displacement standard, t

19

Displacement full, t

23

Length, m

19.8

Breadth, m

3.40

Draught, m

1.00

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 Cummings diesel or Chrysler petrol engine

Power, h. p.

100 or 93

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

diesel oil or petrol 1.2

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 7.6/94, magnetic minesweeping gear

Complement 10

Project history: Differed from Ya-5 type by wooden hull and rectangular-shaped deck house. They were equipped with automobile diesel or petrol engine (latter was designated as Ya-6M). There were minesweeper variants (KATShch) or mortar boat (MK).

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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