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SUIPPE minesweepers (1943 - 1944 / 1947)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Marne (ex-M442) 1950- M609 553 P. Smit, Rotterdam, Netherlands 5.1941 17.8.1942 12.1942 // 10.1947 BU 1953
Suippe (ex-M432) 1950- M610 285 Nederlandsche Scheepsbow, Amsterdam, Netherlands 4.1941 7.3.1942 10.1942 // 10.1947 BU 1953
Aisne (ex-M452)   797 Gusto / Smulders, Schiedam, Netherlands   19.12.1942 2.1943 // 10.1947 BU 1949


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

637

Displacement full, t

775

Length, m

57.6 wl 62.3 oa

Breadth, m

8.90

Draught, m

2.34 normal 2.82 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE with exhaust turbine, 2 Marine boilers

Power, h. p.

2615

Max speed, kts

17.2

Fuel, t

coal 156

Endurance, nm(kts)4000(10)
Armament

2 x 1 - 105/45 SK C/32, (3 - 4) x 1 - 37/69 FlaK M/42, 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 1 - 15/84, 2 x 1 - 86 R Ag M42/43 AARL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (42), 12 mines, mechanical, magnetic, acoustic minesweeping gear

Electronic equipmentS-Gerät, GHG sonars
Complement

75



Standard scale images


<i>Marne</i> 1947
Marne 1947


Project history

Ex-German minesweepers of 1940 type. In addition France received M275, 277, 404, 408, 424, 434, 454, 475, 476 and 495 of this type but none saw active service and they were BU by 1949.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.

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