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Umkomaas 2008

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Navors I, 1.1982- Umkomaas	M1499		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder, West Germany			13.2.1981	in service (2019)
Navors II, 1.1982- Umgeni	M1213		Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder, West Germany			23.3.1981	nonoperational 2008
Navors III, 1.1982- Umzimkulu	M1142		Sandock Austral, Durban			30.10.1981	in service (2019)
Navors IV, 1.1982- Umhloti	M1212		Sandock Austral, Durban			26.11.1981	nonoperational ~2016

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement full, t	380
Length, m	44.5 pp 48.1 oa
Breadth, m	8.45
Draught, m	2.50 aft
No of shafts	2 Voith-Schneider
Machinery	2 MTU 12V652 TB81 diesels
Power, h. p.	4500
Max speed, kts	16.5
Fuel, t	diesel oil 55
Endurance, nm(kts)	2000(13)
Armament	1 x 1 - 20/90 GAM-B01, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 PAP-104 USV, decompression chamber, RIB for divers
Electronic equipment	Decca radar, Simrad, Klein sonars
Complement	40

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Project history

Wooden-hulled, with towed and side-scan sonars, version of German types 340/341. Ordered in 1978 as 'hydrological and geophysical research ships" to avoid embargo and delivered to Durban in 1980 for outfitting, two other ships were built in SAR. Originally all were painted with blue hulls, repainted gray in 1982 and officially acknowledged as naval vessels only 28.1.1988.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.

© Ivan Gogin, 2019