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TSHWANE minesweepers (1958-1959/2001)


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Kapa 2002

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Tshwane (ex-Schleswig) M1222   Burmester Werft, Bremen, West Germany   2.10.1957 30.10.1958 // 15.1.2001 nonoperational 2008
Kapa (ex-Düren) M1223   Burmester Werft, Bremen, West Germany   12.6.1958 22.4.1959 // 15.1.2001 nonoperational 2008
Mangaung (ex-Paderborn) M1224   Burmester Werft, Bremen, West Germany   5.12.1957 16.12.1958 // 15.1.2001 nonoperational 2008
Tekwini (ex-Wolfsburg) M1225   Burmester Werft, Bremen, West Germany   10.12.1958 8.10.1959 // 15.1.2001 nonoperational 2008


Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement full, t488
Length, m

43.5 wl 47.1 oa

Breadth, m

8.50

Draught, m

2.75

No of shafts2
Machinery

2 Maybach MD871 UM/1D diesels

Power, h. p.

3300

Max speed, kts

16.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)2200(16)
Armament

1 x 1 - 40/70 Bofors 315, Oropesa mechanical minesweeping gear, control equipment for 3 Seehund drone minesweepers

Electronic equipmentTRS-N or Kelvin Hughes 14/9 radar, DSQS-11 sonar
Complement44


Standard scale images


<i>Tshwane </i>2005
Tshwane 2005


Graphics


<i>Kapa </i>2002
Kapa 2002


Project history

Former German minesweepers of Lindau class (type 320), modernized under type 351 as command/control ships of Seehund-type minesweeping drone launches (Troika system). Ships were transferred without drones and their minesweeping abilities were limited by only Oropesa wire sweep.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.

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