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A minesweepers (1930)


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B

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
A 6   Rijkswerf Willemsoord, Den Helder 9.1928 19.4.1929 8.1930 scuttled 1.3.1942
B 7   Rijkswerf Willemsoord, Den Helder 9.1928 24.9.1929 8.1930 scuttled 2.3.1942
C 8   Rijkswerf Willemsoord, Den Helder 4.1929 late 1929 8.1930 scuttled 6.3.1942
D 9   Rijkswerf Willemsoord, Den Helder 1928 1929 8.1930 scuttled 2.3.1942


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

179
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

42.8
Breadth, m

6.00
Draught, m

1.50
No of shafts

2
Machinery

1 VTE, 1 water-tube boiler
Power, h. p.

700
Max speed, kts

14.5
Fuel, t

oil 40
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 12.7/90, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement

31 - 38


Standard scale images


<i>Cha112</i> 1943
Cha112 1943


Graphics


<i>B</i>
B


Project history

First Dutch purpose-built minesweepers, designed on the basis of construction of German minesweepers of FM type from the First World War period specially for service in colonies. They had a forecastle and simple machinery.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

A, B, C and D were scuttled at Surabaya in March, 1942. A, B and C were salvaged by Japanese and commissioned as auxiliary submarine chasers Cha113, Cha112 and Cha116; they were lost 23.6.1945, 4.6.1945 and 13.11.1944 respectively.