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NIOBE inshore minesweeper (1958)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Niobe W21, 1.1968- M2661, 1969- Y1643   Kröger-Werft, Schacht-Audorf   8.8.1957 3.1958 mine warfare RC-control boat 1968, stricken 9.1976


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

170

Displacement full, t171
Length, m

33.8 wl 35.2 oa

Breadth, m

6.80

Draught, m

1.70

No of shafts2
Machinery

2 Mercedes-Benz MB820Db diesels

Power, h. p.

2000

Max speed, kts

16

Fuel, t

diesel oil 11

Endurance, nm(kts)800(12)
Armament

1 x 1 - 40/70 Bofors 315, mechanical, acoustic and magnetic minesweeping gear

Electronic equipmentTRS-N radar
Complement20


Standard scale images


<i>Niobe </i>1960
Niobe 1960


Project history

 Hansa and Niobe were designed in 1955-56 as coast guard boats of the Types 361 and 360, differed in the propulsion arrangement: Hansa had one shaft, Niobe two.  These wooden boats were the first to use non-magnetic materials. In 1968 they were reclassified as riverine minesweepers Types 392 and 391, their pennant number changing from 'W' to 'M' prefix.

Modernizations 12.

1968: - minesweeping gear; + minesweeping drone control equipment

Naval service

No significant events.