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François Bovesse 1980

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
J. E. Van Haverbeke	M902		Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, USA	3.1959	29.10.1959	12.1960	stricken 2001
A. F. Dufour (ex-Lången)	M903		Bellingham SY, USA	2.1954	13.8.1954	9.1955 // 4.1966	stricken 2001
De Brouwer (ex-Mansen)	M904		Bellingham SY, USA	4.1954	15.10.1954	11.1955 // 4.1966	stricken 1993
Breydel	M906		Tacoma BB, USA	11.1954	25.3.1955	2.1956	stricken 1993
Artevelde	M907		Tacoma BB, USA	10.1953	19.6.1954	12.1955	diving vessel 1972-1974, stricken 1985
Georges Truffaut	M908		Tampa SB, USA	2.1955	11.11.1955	10.1956	stricken 2001
François Bovesse	M909		Tampa SB, USA	4.1954	2.8.1956	1.1957	stricken 2001

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	720
Displacement full, t	780
Length, m	50.3 wl 52.4 oa
Breadth, m	11.0
Draught, m	4.20
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 General Motors diesels
Power, h. p.	1520
Max speed, kts	14
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(10)
Armament	1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, A Mk 2, A Mk 4, A Mk 6 acoustic, M Mk 5, M Mk 6, M Mk 7 magnetic, Oropesa No.1 mechanical minesweeping gear
Electronic equipment	SPS-53 radar, UQS-1 sonar
Complement	72

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Project history

US Aggressive/Agile class, transferred under MDAP shortly after completion, two units were acquired from Norway in 1966 in exchange for three Adjutant class coastal minesweepers.

Modernizations

1972, Artevelde: - minesweeping gear; + diving equipment

1973, De Brouwer; 1974, A. F. Dufour; 1975, J. E. Van Haverbeke; 1976, Breydel, Georges Truffaut, François Bovesse: as minehunters - 1 x 1 - 40/60, UQS-1 sonar; + 1 x 2 - 12.7/90, SQQ-14 sonar, decompression chamber, diving equipment

1974, Artevelde: + decompression chamber

Naval service

No significant events.