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KAVAK minesweepers (1937/1939)


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Çanak 1950

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

Kavak (ex-MMS1)

Çanak (ex-MMS2)

Thornycroft, Singapore: Kavak, Çanak 1937 // 1939: Kavak, Çanak

None

None

late 1950s: Kavak

1950: Çanak



Technical data


Displacement standard, t32
Displacement full, t52
Length, m22.9
Breadth, m4.37
Draught, m1.52 deep load
No of shafts3
Machinery

3 Thornycroft petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1500

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)270(15)
Armament

mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement11


Graphics


<i>Çanak </i>1950
Çanak 1950


Project history

Former British motor minesweepers. Experimental boats with wooden hulls.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.