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MINE WARFARE SHIPS

KIWI trawlers (1941)

Kiwi 1952

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Kiwi (RNZN) T102 - P102   Robb, Leith 3/1940 7.7.1941 10.1941 sold to BU 9.1963
Moa (RNZN) T233   Robb, Leith 3/1940 15.5.1941 12.1941 sunk 7.4.1943
Tui (RNZN) T234 - P33   Robb, Leith 3/1940 26.8.1941 12.1941 survey vessel 1955

 

Displacement standard, t

600

Displacement full, t

825

Length, m

47.6 pp

Breadth, m

9.22

Draught, m

3.51 deep load

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

1000

Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

oil 220

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 102/44 BL Mk IX, 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (40), mechanical minesweeping gear

Sensors type 122 sonar

Complement

35

Project history: ASW patrol trawlers. Differed from the majority of other British trawlers by not coal, but oil-firing boilers. Were sometimes classified as corvettes.

Modernizations: 1940s, all survived: + type 271 or type 290 radar

Naval service: Moa was sunk by Japanese aircraft. Survived ships were reclassified as escorts after war.

 

Tui 1946

 

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