Bidasoa 1954
Bidasoa 1965
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Bidasoa | M01 | SECN, Cartagena | 12/1942 | 15.9.1943 | 4.1946 | stricken 11.1973 | |
| Nervión | M02 | SECN, Cartagena | 12/1942 | 15.4.1944 | 9.1946 | stricken 7.1972 | |
| Lérez | M03 | SECN, Cartagena | 12/1942 | 21.12.1944 | 2.1947 | stricken 6.1971 | |
| Tambre | M04 | SECN, Cartagena | 6/1943 | 18.10.1944 | 8.1946 | stricken 5.1973 | |
| Guadalete | SECN, Cartagena | 6/1943 | 18.10.1944 | 12.1946 | foundered 25.3.1954 | ||
| Segura | M05 | SECN, Cartagena | 5/1946 | 6.10.1948 | 12.1949 | stricken 11.1973 | |
| Ter | M06 | SECN, Cartagena | 5/1946 | 18.2.1948 | 7.1948 | stricken 10.1972 |
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Displacement standard, t |
585 |
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Displacement full, t |
748 |
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Length, m |
57.6 pp 61.9 oa |
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Breadth, m |
8.50 |
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Draught, m |
2.64 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 VTE with exhaust steam turbines, 2 boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
2400 |
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Max speed, kts |
16.5 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 150 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 3000(10) |
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Armament |
1 x 1 - 88/45 MPLC/30 or 1 x 1 - 102/45 Vickers Mk LA, 1 x 1 - 37/83 Ein LC/34, 2 x 1 - 20/65 L/30, 2 DCR(12), mechanical minesweeping gear |
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Complement |
90 |
Project history: Built under drawings of German minesweepers of M1940 type, gained in 1940. Modified Spanish design was designated as No6 or DG-41m. Ships were ordered 30.5.1941. They differed by poor construction quality and bad seaworthiness, really they were outfitted till mid-1950s. Partly ships received old Spanish 102mm/45 guns removed from stricken ships. Whereas Germans till 1945 had not time to deliver modern sweeps to Spain, Bidasoa class ships practically had no possibilities on sweeping non-contact mines. They were used basically as patrols.
Modernizations: 1960s, all survived: presumably + radar
Naval service: Guadalete was foundered during a storm at Ceuta 25.3.1954.
Guadalete 1953
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