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Uad Kert 1925  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Uad Kert (ex-Rother, ex-Anthony Aslett) (non-standard)			Cochrane, Selby, UK		22.2.1917	6/1917 // 4.1922	stricken 11.1966
Arcíla (ex-William Doak)*			Goole SB, UK		1918	9/1918 // 4.1922	stricken 12.1970
Xauen (ex-Henry Cramwell)			Lobnitz, Renfrew, UK		1918	12/1918 // 4.1922	stricken 1.1971
Pemartin (ex-Panxon, ex-Thomas Bailey), 1.1938- Ruis de la Puente			Cochrane, Selby, UK		4.8.1917	11/1917 // 1936	returned mercantile 4.1939

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	438
Displacement full, t	665
Length, m	45.1
Breadth, m	7.24
Draught, m	2.75
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 1 boiler
Power, h. p.	600
Max speed, kts	11
Fuel, t	coal 184
Endurance, nm(kts)	3100(7)
Armament	Uad Kert, Pemartin: 1 x 1 - 76/50 Vickers Mk TR Arcíla: 2 x 1 - 76/50 Vickers Mk TR Xauen: 1 x 1 - 76/50 Vickers Mk TR, 1 x 1 - 47/50 Vickers
Complement	45

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Project history

Former British Admiralty trawlers of Mersey type, commissioned by Spanish Navy 11.4.1922 and during Civil was by Nationalists in 1936.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

 Arcíla since 1934 was used as survey vessel, in July, 1936 she was transferred under control of Nationalists. Crew of Xauen 20.7.1936 supported Republic. 8.2.1937 Xauen was scuttled during fall of Malaga. She was salvaged by Nationalists, repaired and in July, 1938 commissioned by National fleet. After Civil war both ships served as patrols. Uad Kert in July, 1936 was transferred under control of Nationalists. Uad Kert was hard damaged by gunfire of republican battleship Jaime I at Algeciras 7.8.1936, but was repaired.