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SWEDISH NAVY (SWEDEN)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

M1 inshore minesweepers (1938)

Names

M1, 2

Builders

Ekensberg, Stockholm: M1, 2

Commissioned

5/1938: M1, 2

Losses

no

Transfers

no

Discarding

4/1952: M1

3/1953: M2

 

Displacement standard, t

61

Displacement full, t

62

Length, m

M1: 30.0

M2: 29.8

Breadth, m

M1: 4.30

M2: 3.95

Draught, m

M1: 1.00

M2: 1.03

No of shafts

3

Machinery

M1: 3 Bolinder hot-bulb engines

M2: 3 NOHAB diesels

Power, h. p.

M1: 600

M2: 630

Max speed, kts

M1: 16.5

M2: 18

Fuel, t

M1: oil 3

M2: diesel oil 3

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 13.2/76, DC, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

11

Project history: Harbour minesweepers with steel hulls, are ordered in 1935, laid down in 1937 and commissioned in 1938.

Modernizations: none.

Naval service: no significant events.

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