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MINE WARFARE SHIPS AND CRAFT

BANGRACHAN minelayers (1936-1937)

Bangrachan 1937

Bangrachan 1960

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
บางระจัน [Bangrachan] 1   CRDA, Monfalcone, Italy 1935 1936 1936 stricken 7.1980
หนองสาหร่าย [Nangsarai] 2   CRDA, Monfalcone, Italy 1935 22.7.1936 1937 stricken 7.1980

 

Displacement standard, t

368

Displacement full, t

408

Length, m

50.0 pp

Breadth, m

7.69

Draught, m

2.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Burmeister & Wain diesels

Power, h. p.

540

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

diesel oil 34

Endurance, nm(kts)

2700(12)

Armament

2 x 1 - 76/40 Ansaldo 1917, 142 mines

Complement 55

Project history: Purpose-built minelayers. They were ordered in Italy under the 1935 programme. 1935 Despite the modest dimensions, they had good seaworthiness and considerable mine capacity. Mines were carried on two rails on upper deck at all ship length.

Modernizations: early 1950s, both: + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10

1960s, both presumably: + radar

Naval service: Both ships served more than 40 years.

Bangrachan 1950

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