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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

LINNET small minelayers (1938)

Linnet 1940

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Linnet 1948- N... 369 Ardrossan SB 1937 24.2.1938 6/1938 sold 1964
Redstart   263 Robb, Leith 9.1937 3.5.1938 10.1938 scuttled 19.12.1941
Ringdove   264 Robb, Leith 9.1937 16.6.1938 12.1938 sold 1950

 

Displacement standard, t

498

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

49.9

Breadth, m

8.28

Draught, m

2.44

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE

Power, h. p.

400

Max speed, kts

10.5

Fuel, t

oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 2 - 7.7/87, 12 mines

Complement

24

Project history: Project was developed on the basis of a trawler design.

Modernizations: 1942, both survived: + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, presumably type 271 radar

Naval service: Redstart was scuttled by own crew in Hong Kong 19.12.1941.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Linnet 1938

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