M-01 Bidasoa

Country:  Spain

Class, [Type]: Bidasoa, [MSC].

Builder: SECN, Cartagena, Spain.

Launch date: 15 September 1943.

Commission date: 25 April 1946.

Decommission date: 02 November 1973.

Displacement ( tons ): 615.

Dimensions ( metres ): 61,9 x 8,5 x 2,26

Main machinery: ? ( 2.400 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 16,5.

Range ( miles ): 3.000 at 10 knots.

Complement: 80.

Guns: 1 x 88mm, 1 x 37mm, 2 x 20mm.

Mines: Could carry up to 12 depth charges.

Military lift: 105tm coal.

Comment: Ex - DM1. Head of a class of minesweepers, built in the fourties based on the german DG.41 design. During his last years in active service it was used for patrol and fisheries protection.

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