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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

JUNELLA trawler-minesweeper (1975/1982)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Junella H294 332 Clelands SB, Willington Quay   9.9.1975 1975 // 4.1982 returned 10.1982

 

Displacement standard, t

1614brt

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

60.6 pp

Breadth, m

13.1

Draught, m

4.70

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Mirrlees Blackstone diesels

Power, h. p.

3180

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

Mk 8 Oropesa, Mk 9 Kite Otter mechanical minesweeping gear

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.

Junella

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

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