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Thornycroft-built motor minesweepers (MMS1) (1937)


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MMS1

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

MMS1 - 2

Thornycroft, Singapore: MMS1, 2 1937: MMS1, 2

none

Turkey, 1939: MMS1, 2 (Kavak, Čanak) none


Technical data


Displacement standard, t52
Displacement full, t 
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) 
Armament

mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement11


Graphics


<i> MMS1</i>
MMS1


Project history

Experimental boats with wooden hulls.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.