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PICT trawler-minesweeper (1973/1982)


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Pict

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Pict H150   Brooke Marine, Lowestoft   22.11.1972 1973 // 4.1982 returned 10.1982


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1478brt

Displacement full, t 
Length, m70.2 pp
Breadth, m12.9
Draught, m 
No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Mirrlees Blackstone diesels

Power, h. p.3246
Max speed, kts13.5
Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

Mk 8 Oropesa, Mk 9 Kite Otter mechanical minesweeping gear

Electronic equipmentnav. radar
Complement 


Graphics


<i>Pict</i>
Pict


Project history

In spring 1982 five large stern trawlers were requisitioned by Admiralty for Falklands service as part of 11th Mine Countermeasures Squadron. They swept two Argentine minefields during a conflict.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.