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ROYAL SOUTH AFRICAN NAVY (SOUTH AFRICA)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

IMMORTELLE minesweeping trawlers (1918/1921)

Immortelle 1920

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Immortelle (ex-Eden, ex-Thomas Johns)     Cochrane, Selby, UK   1918 9/1918 // 1921 to United Kingdom 1934 (Eden)
Sonneblom (ex-Foyle, ex-John Edmund)     Goole SB, UK   1918 10/1918 // 1921 to United Kingdom 1934 (Foyle)

 

Displacement normal, t

438

Displacement full, t

665

Length, m

45.1

Breadth, m

7.24

Draught, m

2.75

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 boiler

Power, h. p.

600

Max speed, kts

11

Fuel, t

coal 184

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk.I/II

Complement

 

Project history: Former RN 'Mersey' class trawlers, really both ships did not have sweeping gear.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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