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MATROUH ocean minesweepers (1941-1942/1946-1949)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
مطروح [Matrouh] (ex-Stornoway)     Robb, Leith, UK 7/1940 10.6.1941 11.1941 // 9.1946 lost 1968-69
نصر [Nasr] (ex-Bude)     Lobnitz, Renfrew, UK 4/1940 4.9.1940 2.1941 // 1946 expended 1972
السلوم [Sollum] (ex-Wedgeport)     Dufferin, Toronto, Canada   2.8.1941 4/1942 // 1949 foundered 7.4.1953


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

688

Displacement full, t

875

Length, m

54.9

Breadth, m

8.69

Draught, m

3.12 deep load (3.73 by screws)

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers

Power, h. p.

2400

Max speed, kts

16.5

Fuel, t

oil 150

Endurance, nm(kts)

4000(10)

Armament

1 x 1 - 102/45 CP Mk I, 1 x 1 - 76/45 Mk IV, 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk III, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 2 DCT

Electronic equipmenttype 291U radar, type 128 sonar
Complement

87



Standard scale images


<i>Matrouh </i>1960
Matrouh 1960


Project history

Former British Bangor class minesweepers, rated as corvettes.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Details of the loss of Matrouh are not available. Sollum foundered 7.4.1953 off Alexandria in heavy weather.