NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Adrien de Gerlache (ex-Liberty)	M900		Harland & Wolff, Belfast, UK	11/1943	22.8.1944	1/1945 // 11.1949	logistics vessel 1959
Georges Lecointe (ex-Cadmus)	M901		Harland & Wolff, Belfast, UK	7/1941	27.5.1942	9/1942 // 1.1950	TS 1954, hulk 1957
Jan Van Haverbecke (ex-Ready)	M902		Harland & Wolff, Belfast, UK	4/1942	11.1.1943	5/1943 // 7.1951	stricken 6.1960
A. F. Dufour (ex-Fancy)	M903		Blyth SB, UK	2/1942	12.8.1942	12/1942 // 8.1951	stricken 1957
De Brouwer (ex-Spanker)	M904, 1959- F904		Harland & Wolff, Belfast, UK	9/1942	20.4.1943	8/1943 // 2.1953	frigate 1959, stricken 1966
De Moor (ex-Rosario)	M905, 1959- F905		Harland & Wolff, Belfast, UK	9/1942	3.4.1943	7/1943 // 1.1953	frigate 1959, stricken 1970

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1040
Displacement full, t	1335
Length, m	65.0 pp 68.6 oa
Breadth, m	10.8
Draught, m	3.20 deep load (3.58 by screws)
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 geared steam turbines sets, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	2000
Max speed, kts	16
Fuel, t	oil 235
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000(10)
Armament	1 x 1 - 102/45 HA Mk 3, 4 х 1 - 40/60 Mk 7, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (92 in ASW role), mechanical, magnetic, acoustic minesweeping gear
Electronic equipment	type 271 or type 272, type 291 (some) radars, type 128 sonar
Complement	101

Standard scale images

Project history

Former British ocean minesweepers of Algerine class.

Modernizations

1959, De Brouwer, De Moor: - minesweeping gear

1966, De Moor: - 1 x 1 - 102/45; + 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7

Naval service

No significant events.