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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

Thornycroft-built motor minesweepers (1937)

Names

MMS1 - 2

Builders

Thornycroft, Singapore: MMS1, 2

Completed

1937: MMS1, 2

Losses

none

Transfers

Turkey, 1939: MMS1, 2 (Kavak, Čanak)

Discarding

none

 

Displacement standard, t

52

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

22.9

Breadth, m

4.37

Draught, m

1.52 deep load

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Thornycroft petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1500

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

11

Project history:  Experimental boats with wooden hulls.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

MMS1

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