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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

CORDELLA trawler-minesweeper (1973/1982)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Cordella H177 323 Clelands SB, Willington Quay   6.2.1973 5.1973 // 4.1982 returned 1984

 

Displacement standard, t

1450brt

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

70.2 pp

Breadth, m

14.6

Draught, m

8.14

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Mirrlees Blackstone diesels

Power, h. p.

3246

Max speed, kts

16.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

Mk 8 Oropesa, Mk 9 Kite Otter mechanical minesweeping gears

Electronic equipment nav. radar

Complement

 

Project history: In spring 1982 five large stern trawlers were requisitioned by Admiralty for Falklands service as part of 11th Mine Countermeasures Squadron. They swept two Argentine minefields during a conflict.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Cordella

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

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