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TURKISH NAVY (TURKEY)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS AND CRAFT

FOÇA minesweepers (1967)

Foça 1970

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Foça M500   Peterson Bldrs, Sturgeon Bay, USA   23.8.1966 8.1967 stricken 2015
Fethiye M501   Peterson Bldrs, Sturgeon Bay, USA   7.12.1966 9.1967 stricken 2014
Fatsa M502   Peterson Bldrs, Sturgeon Bay, USA   11.4.1967 10.1967 stricken 2015
Finike M503   Peterson Bldrs, Sturgeon Bay, USA   11.1967 12.1967 stricken 2015

 

Displacement standard, t

203

Displacement full, t

239

Length, m

34.1

Breadth, m

7.14

Draught, m

2.40

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 General Motors Detroit 6-71 diesels

Power, h. p.

960

Max speed, kts

12.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil 20

Endurance, nm(kts)

1000(9)

Armament

2 x 1 - 12.7/90, mechanical, acoustic, magnetic minesweeping gear

Electronic equipment

radar

Complement

20

Project history: US Cape class inshore minesweepers, built under MDAP.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Foça 1979

Finike 2001

© Ivan Gogin, 2015