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Guadalete 1953

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Bidasoa	M01		SECN, Cartagena	12/1942	15.9.1943	4.1946	stricken 11.1973
Nervión	M02		SECN, Cartagena	12/1942	15.4.1944	9.1946	stricken 7.1972
Lérez	M03		SECN, Cartagena	12/1942	21.12.1944	2.1947	stricken 6.1971
Tambre	M04		SECN, Cartagena	6/1943	18.10.1944	8.1946	stricken 5.1973
Guadalete			SECN, Cartagena	6/1943	18.10.1944	12.1946	foundered 25.3.1954
Segura	M05		SECN, Cartagena	5/1946	6.10.1948	12.1949	stricken 11.1973
Ter	M06		SECN, Cartagena	5/1946	18.2.1948	7.1948	stricken 10.1972

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	585
Displacement full, t	748
Length, m	57.6 pp 61.9 oa
Breadth, m	8.50
Draught, m	2.64
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE with exhaust steam turbines, 2 boilers
Power, h. p.	2400
Max speed, kts	16.5
Fuel, t	coal 150
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(10)
Armament	1 x 1 - 88/45 MPLC/30 or 1 x 1 - 102/45 Vickers Mk LA, 1 x 1 - 37/83 Ein LC/34, 2 x 1 - 20/65 L/30, 2 DCR(12), mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	90

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Project history

Built under drawings of German minesweepers of M1940 type, gained in 1940. Modified Spanish design was designated as No6 or DG-41m. Ships were ordered 30.5.1941. They differed by poor construction quality and bad seaworthiness, really they were outfitted till mid-1950s. Partly ships received old Spanish 102mm/45 guns removed from stricken ships. Whereas Germans till 1945 had not time to deliver modern sweeps to Spain, Bidasoa class ships practically had no possibilities on sweeping non-contact mines. They were used basically as patrols.

Modernizations

1960s, all survived: presumably + radar

Naval service

Guadalete was foundered during a storm at Ceuta 25.3.1954.