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LÅGEN ocean minesweepers (1955)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Lågen M950   Bellingham SY, USA 11.2.1954 13.8.1954 27.9.1955 to Belgium 4.1966 (Dufour)
Namsen M951   Bellingham SY, USA 25.4.1954 15.10.1954 1.11.1955 to Belgium 4.1966 (De Brouwer)


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

637

Displacement full, t

735

Length, m

50.3 wl 52.3 oa

Breadth, m

10.4

Draught, m

4.00

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 Packard diesels

Power, h. p.

2280

Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

2400(12)

Armament

1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, A Mk 2, A Mk 4, A Mk 6 acoustic, M Mk 5, M Mk 6, M Mk 7 magnetic and Oropesa No.1 mechanical minesweeping gear

Electronic equipment

SPS-53 radar, UQS-1 sonar

Complement

70



Standard scale images


<i>Lågen </i>1965
Lågen 1965


Project history

USN Aggressive class ocean minesweepers, transferred under MDAP.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.