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KUCKUCK minelayer (1944)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Kuckuck (ex-Vittorio Locchi)   223 CNQ, Fiume   1943/44 26.9.1944 sunk 5.11.1944


Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement full, t4570
Length, m

104.0 wl 116.9 oa

Breadth, m

15.2

Draught, m

6.39

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Ansaldo diesels

Power, h. p.

6300

Max speed, kts

17

Fuel, tdiesel oil 170
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament3 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 3 x 2 - 37/80 SK C/30, 4 x 1 - 37/69 FlaK M/42, 3 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 6 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 8 x 1 - 86 R Ag M42/43 AA RL, 290 mines
Complement56


Standard scale images


<i>Kuckuck</i> 1944
Kuckuck 1944


Project history

Cargo vessel built for Italian Tirrenia S. A. Nav., captured at Fiume 9.9.1943.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Kuckuck 5.11.1944 was sunk by British aircraft at Fiume, salvaged in 1948 and served till 1978 in Yugoslavian commercial fleet.