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Portuguese-built trawlers, steel hull (PRODIGAL) (1941 - 1942)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Portisham, 1943 - Proctor (ex-Portadown) T185   Alfeite Arsenal, Almada, Portugal 1941 23.10.1942 4.1943 sold 6.1946
Portaferry, 1943 - Probe T186   Alfeite Arsenal, Almada, Portugal 1941 24.10.1942 6.1943 sold 6.1946
Porthleven, 1943 - Prodigal T187   Uniao Fabril, Lisbon, Portugal 1941 26.4.1941 8.1942 sold 6.1946
Port Jackson, 1943 - Product T188   Uniao Fabril, Lisbon, Portugal 1941 12.4.1941 6.1942 to Greece 7.1946
Portmadoc, 1943 - Professor T189   Uniao Fabril, Lisbon, Portugal 1941 28.5.1942 6.1942 sold 6.1946
Port Natal, 1943 - Promise T193   Uniao Fabril, Lisbon, Portugal 1941 20.9.1941 8.1942 sold 6.1946


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

452

Displacement full, t564 - 586
Length, m45.4
Breadth, m7.75
Draught, m3.48 - 3.58 deep load
No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 diesel

Power, h. p.560
Max speed, kts

11.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil 80

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II/V, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (25), mechanical minesweeping gear

Electronic equipmenttype 286PU (some) radar
Complement30


Project history

Steel-hulled trawlers built in Portugal by Admiralty order. Minesweeping trawlers. 2 additional units (Alfeite) were cancelled and 2 units (Uniao Fabril) were completed mercantile.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.