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BIDASOA minesweepers (1946-1949)


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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, t585
Displacement full, t748
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



Standard scale images


<i>Bidasoa </i>1965
Bidasoa 1965
<i>Bidasoa</i> 1954
Bidasoa 1954


Graphics


<i>Guadalete </i>1953
Guadalete 1953


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.