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UNITED KINGDOM
MINE WARFARE SHIPS
"RIVER" seagoing minesweepers (WAVENEY) (1984 - 1986)


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Helmsdale 1988 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships


Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Waveney

M2003

562 Richards SB, Lowestoft 21.2.1983 8.9.1983 29.9.1984 to Bangladesh 10.1994 (শাপলা [Shapla])
Carron M2004   Richards SB, Great Yarmouth 21.2.1983 23.9.1983 29.9.1984 to Bangladesh 101994 (সৈকত [Shaikat])
Dovey M2005   Richards SB, Great Yarmouth 3.3.1983 1.12.1983 30.3.1985 to Bangladesh 10.1994 (সুরভী [Surovi])
Helford M2006   Richards SB, Great Yarmouth 12.10.1983 16.5.1984 5.1985 to Bangladesh 10.1994 (শৈবাল [Shaibal])
Humber M2007 564 Richards SB, Great Yarmouth 21.10.1983 17.5.1984 7.6.1985 to Brazil 2.1995 (Amorim do Valle)
Blackwater M2008 565 Richards SB, Great Yarmouth 16.1.1984 29.8.1984 20.6.1985 to Brazil 7.1998 (Melo Baptista)
Itchen M2009 566 Richards SB, Lowestoft 26.3.1984 16.11.1984 12.10.1985 to Brazil 4.1998 (Jorge Leite)
Helmsdale M2010 567 Richards SB, Lowestoft 21.5.1984 11.1.1985 1.3.1986 to Brazil 2.1995 (Garnier Sampaio)
Orwell M2011 568 Richards SB, Great Yarmouth 4.6.1984 7.2.1985 22.3.1986 retired 7.2000, to Guyana (Essequibo)
Ribble M2012 569 Richards SB, Great Yarmouth 17.9.1984 7.5.1985 28.6.1986 to Brazil 2.1995 (Jorge Leite)
Spey M2013 570 Richards SB, Lowestoft 12.11.1984 22.5.1985 19.7.1986 to Brazil 7.1998 (Andromeda)
Arun M2014 571 Richards SB, Lowestoft 4.2.1985 20.8.1985 29.8.1986 to Brazil 9.1998 (Babitonga)


Technical data


Displacement standard, t770
Displacement full, t

890

Length, m

42.0 pp 47.6 oa

Breadth, m

10.5

Draught, m

3.10 hull 3.75 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Ruston 6RKCM diesels

Power, h. p.

3040

Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

diesel oil 88

Endurance, nm(kts)4500(10)
Armament

1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 9, 2 x 1 - 7.6/90, Mk 9 Team Sweep System mechanical minesweeping gear

Electronic equipment

2x Decca 1226 radars

Complement

30



Standard scale images


<i>Waveney </i>1985
Waveney 1985


Graphics


<i>Helmsdale </i>1988 <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
Helmsdale 1988 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.


Project history

In 1980 it was hoped to order twelve EDATS minesweepers at a cost of £2.4m each. The options were a Navy-designed hull or an adapted commercial design such as a stern trawler. Hall Russell, for example, submitted a derivative of their torpedo recovery vessel, but finally Richards' adapted oil-rig support vessel proposal was accepted.

Plans to order three more for the Fishery Protection Squadron were deferred indefinitely in 1991. Originally to be The Amethyst class, with names of precious stones.

Modernizations

1994-1995, Blackwater, Itchen, Orwell, Spey, Arun: - minesweeping gear (as patrol ships)

Naval service

No significant events.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.