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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

ABDIEL training minelayer (1967)

Abdiel 1970

Abdiel 1979

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Abdiel N21   Thornycroft, Woolston 23.5.1966 27.1.1967 17.10.1967 BU 9.1988

 

Displacement standard, t

1375

Displacement full, t

1460

Length, m

74.7 pp 80.4 oa

Breadth, m

11.7

Draught, m

2.85

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Paxman Ventura 16-YSCM diesels

Power, h. p.

2690

Max speed, kts

16

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7, 44 mines

Electronic equipment type 978 radar

Complement

98

Project history: Designed to lay exercise minefields and to support mine countermeasures forces.

Modernizations: late 1970s: - type 978 radar; + type 1006 radar

Naval service: No significant events.

Abdiel 1980

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