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RA1 minesweeping boats (1942 - 1943)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
RA1 (ex-Ch44)     Ch de Normandie, Fécamp   10.6.1940 1.1942 surrendered 5.1945, to United Kingdom 1.1946 (RN602)
RA2 (ex-Ch45)     Ch de Normandie, Fécamp   1941 3.1942 sunk 18.10.1944
RA6 (ex-Ch46)     Ch de Normandie, Fécamp   24.10.1942 8.1943 scuttled 16.8.1944
RA7 (ex-Ch47)     Ch de Normandie, Fécamp   1943 9.1943 scuttled 16.8.1944
RA8 (ex-Ch48)     Ch de Normandie, Fécamp   8.7.1943 10.1943 scuttled 16.8.1944


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

126

Displacement full, t

160

Length, m

37.4

Breadth, m

5.53

Draught, m

2.40

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 MAN diesels

Power, h. p.

1836

Max speed, kts

15.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil 6.5

Endurance, nm(kts)1100(10)
Armament

1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 3 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

39



Standard scale images


<i>nearly sister-ship RA3</i> 1943
nearly sister-ship RA3 1943


Project history

RA1 and RA3 classes represented former French submarine chasers of Ch41 (Ch44-48) and Ch5 (Ch17-19) classes, captured on slipways in 1940 and completed for Kriegsmarine. Differed with a hull structure: RA1 had wooden hulls, RA3 had steel ones.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

RA2 was sunk by Allied mine and RA6, RA7 and RA8 were scuttled by own crews.