Career (Belgium) | |
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Name: | Myosotis |
Namesake: | Myosotis |
Builder: | Beliard-Murdoch, Ostend |
Laid down: | 6 July 1987 |
Launched: | 4 August 1988 |
Completed: | 14 December 1989 |
Struck: | 2004 |
Fate: | Sold to Bulgaria |
Career (Bulgaria) | |
Name: | Tsibar |
Status: | in active service, as of 2010[update] |
General characteristics (in Belgian service) | |
Class and type: | Tripartite-class minehunter |
Displacement: | 536 t (528 long tons) empty 605 t (595 long tons) full load |
Length: | 51.5 m (169 ft) |
Beam: | 8.96 m (29.4 ft) |
Height: | 18.5 m (61 ft) |
Draught: | 3.6 m (12 ft) |
Propulsion: | 1 × 1370 kW Werkspoor RUB 215 V12 diesel engine 2 × 180 kW ACEC active rudders 1 × HOLEC bow propellor |
Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Range: | 3,000 nautical miles (5,600 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
Boats and landing craft carried: |
2 × rigid-hulled inflatable boats 1 × Atlas Elektronik Seafox ROV |
Complement: | 4 officers, 15 non-commissioned officers, 17 sailors |
Sensors and processing systems: |
1 × Thales Underwater Systems TSM 2022 Mk III Hull Mounted Sonar 1 × SAAB Bofors Double Eagle Mk III Self Propelled Variable Depth Sonar 1 × Consilium Selesmar Type T-250/10CM003 Radar |
Armament: | 3 × 12.7 mm machine guns |
Tsibar is a Tripartite-class minehunter of the Bulgarian Navy. The ship was formerly Myosotis (M922) of the Belgian Naval Component. Myosotis' keel was laid on 6 July 1987 at Ostend yard of Beliard-Murdoch. She was launched on 4 August 1988 and completed on 14 December 1989. Myosotis was stricken from the Belgian Naval Component in 2004 and sold to Bulgaria.
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