ANTILOPE minesweeper (1944 / 1949)

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
B1 (ex-M328), 1953- Antilope	1953- M5537, 6.1956- F540		Oderwerke, Stettin, Germany	6.1942	12.6.1943	8.1944 // 7.1949	discarded 1958

Displacement standard, t	637
Displacement full, t	775
Length, m	57.6 wl 62.3 oa
Breadth, m	8.90
Draught, m	2.34 normal 2.82 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE with exhaust turbine, 2 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	2615
Max speed, kts	17.2
Fuel, t	coal 156
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000(10)
Armament	2 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32 or (1 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 1 x 2 - 37/80 SK C/30), 2 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (42), 12 mines, mechanical, magnetic, acoustic minesweeping gear
Electronic equipment	S-Gerät sonar (presumably), GHG hydrophone
Complement	68 - 75

B1 1949

Former German type 1940 minesweeper assigned to USN in 1947 and transferred to Italian Navy.

1956, as patrol ship: boilers were converted to oil; armament consisted of 1 x 1 - 100/47 OTO 1937, 3 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 DCT, radar

No significant events.