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Kistna 1970s

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Cauvery (कावेरी)	U10, 1951- F110, 1975- F10		Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK	10.1942	15.6.1943	10.1943	stricken 1979
Kistna (कृष्णा)	U46, 1951- F46		Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK	7.1942	22.4.1943	8.1943	stricken 1982

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1350 - 1490
Displacement full, t	1880 - 1950
Length, m	86.3 pp 91.3 oa
Breadth, m	11.7
Draught, m	3.40 - 3.50 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	4300
Max speed, kts	19.75
Fuel, t	oil 420
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	3 x 2 - 102/45 Mk XIX, 4 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 8 DCT, 2 DCR (110)
Electronic equipment	type 271, type 291 radars, type 144 sonar
Complement	219

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Project history

Black Swan design to which the corrections considering experience of the first years of war are made: the hull breadth was increased for compensation of the increased weight of armament, engine power was increased for speed preservation. According to Admiralty decision every sixth sloop should have minelaying equipment.

Modernizations

1945, Kistna: + 2 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors Mk III

1962, Kistna, late 1960s, Cauvery: - 1 x 2 - 102/45, 4 x 2 - 20/70, 6 DCT; + 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7

1970s, both: - 2 x 1 - 20/70; + 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7

Naval service

No significant events.