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GRANIT minesweepers (1918)


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Granit

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Granit     A C de la Loire, Nantes   1918 1918 scuttled 27.11.1942
Gres     A C de la Loire, St-Nazaire   1918 1918 condemned 1920
Marbre     A C de la Loire, Nantes   1918 1918 condemned 1920
Mica     A C de la Loire, St-Nazaire   1918 1918 condemned 1938
Porphyre     A C de la Loire, Nantes   1918 1918 condemned 1932


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

360
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

57.6
Breadth, m

7.90
Draught, m

2.30
No of shafts

1
Machinery

1 VTE, 1 Belleville boiler
Power, h. p.

600
Max speed, kts

12.5
Fuel, t

coal
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

(1 - 2) x 1 - 65/50 M1902, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement63


Standard scale images


<i>Granit</i> 1918
Granit 1918
<i>Granit</i> 1940
Granit 1940


Graphics


<i>Granit</i>
Granit


Project history

Purpose-built minesweepers, laid down under 1917 program, officially rated as 2nd class avisos.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Granit was scuttled 27.11.1942 at Toulon, later salvaged and commissioned by Germans as SG26.