NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
永勝[Yong Sheng] (ex-Lance), later- 玉門 [Zhen Nan]	MSF43, later- PCE43		American SB, Lorain, USA	10.1942	10.4.1943	11.1943 // 10.1949	stricken 7.1972
永順 [Yong Shun] (ex-Logic), later- 鎮南 [Yu Men]	MSF44, later- PCE44		American SB, Lorain, USA	10.1942	10.4.1943	11.1943 // 10.1949	stricken 6.1970
永定 [Yong Ding] (ex-Lucid)	MSF45		American SB, Lorain, USA	2.1943	5.6.1943	12.1943 // 10.1949	survey vessel 1960s, stricken 7.1972
永寧 [Yong Ning] (ex-Magnet)	MSF46		American SB, Lorain, USA	3.1943	5.6.1943	3.1944 // 10.1949	wrecked 27.1.1958
永嘉 [Yong Jia] (ex-Implicit)	MSF47		Savannah Machine & Foundry Co., USA	3.1943	6.9.1943	1.1944 // 10.1949	stricken 8.1970
永修 [Yong Xiu] (ex-Pinnacle)	MSF48		Gulf SB, Madisonville, USA	2.1943	11.9.1943	5.1944 // 10.1949	stricken 7.1972
永壽 [Yong Shou] (ex-Pivot), later- 秣陵 [Zi Ling]	MSF49, later- PCE49		Gulf SB, Madisonville, USA	7.1943	11.11.1943	7.1944 // 10.1949	stricken 7.1970
永豐 [Yong Feng] (ex-Prime)	MSF50		Gulf SB, Madisonville, USA	9.1943	22.1.1944	9.1944 // 10.1949	stricken 5.1973
永昌 [Yong Chang] (ex-Refresh), later- 臨淮 [Lin Huai]	MSF51, later- PCE51		General Engineering, Alameda, USA	9.1943	12.4.1944	4.1945 // 10.1949	sunk 14.11.1965
永春 [Yong Chun] (ex-Gavia)	MSF52, later- PF52		Puget Sound Bridge, USA	7.1943	18.9.1943	7.1945 // 10.1949	stricken 6.1962
永和 [Yong He] (ex-Delegate)	MSF53, later- PF53		Tampa SB, USA	12.1942	28.3.1943	4.1944 // 10.1949	stricken 9.1962
永康 [Yong Kang] (ex-Elusive)	MSF54, later- PF54		American SB, Lorain, USA	12.1943	10.6.1944	2.1945 // 10.1949	stricken 1.1962

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	825
Displacement full, t	945
Length, m	54.9 wl 56.2 oa
Breadth, m	10.1
Draught, m	2.97
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 diesels
Power, h. p.	2000
Max speed, kts	15.1
Fuel, t	diesel oil 140
Endurance, nm(kts)	8500 (12)
Armament	1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 22, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, mechanical, acoustic, magnetic sweeping gear
Electronic equipment	presumably SF or SO or SU radar, QCU sonar
Complement	96

Standard scale images

Project history

Former USN Admirable class ocean minesweepers.

Modernizations

late 1950s, PCEs and PFs were armed with 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 22, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10

Naval service

Yong Ning wrecked during typhoon 27.1.1958. Lin Huai was sunk by Chinese ships off S China 14.11.1965.

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