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MINE WARFARE SHIPS

PLOVER coastal minelayer (1937)

Plover 1943

Plover 1963

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Plover N26 1302 Denny, Dumbarton 10.1936 8.6.1937 9.1937 sold 1968

 

Displacement standard, t

805

Displacement full, t

1020

Length, m

59.5

Breadth, m

11.4

Draught, m

3.05 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 water-tube boilers

Power, h. p.

1400

Max speed, kts

14.75

Fuel, t

oil 116

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 7.7/87, 80 mines

Complement

69

Project history: Purpose-built coastal minelayer.

Modernizations: Late 1939: - 2 x 1 - 7.7/87; + 1 x 1 - 76/45 20cwt QF Mk I/II/III/IV

circa 1941 - 1943: + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, mine stowage was increased up to 100, presumably type 271 radar

Naval service: Plover laid over 15000 mines in days of war.

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

Plover 1943

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