ORP Dzik a minesweeper of the Polish Navy |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | T43 class (Project 254) |
| Operators: | Soviet Navy Albanian Naval Defense Forces Algerian National Navy Bulgarian Navy People's Liberation Army Navy Cuban Navy Egyptian Navy Indonesian Navy Iraqi Navy Syrian Navy |
| Succeeded by: | T58 class minesweeper |
| Built: | 1948-1960? |
| In commission: | 1948?-1990? |
| Completed: | 178 |
| Retired: | 178 ? |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 500 tons standard, 569 tons full load |
| Length: | 58 meters |
| Beam: | 8.5 meters |
| Draught: | 2.15 meters |
| Propulsion: | diesel engines 2200 hp |
| Speed: | 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,800 nautical miles (7,037.6 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Crew: | ? |
| Armament: | 4 37mm guns (2x2) 2 12.7mm machine guns 1 depth charge thrower up to 32 mines Sweeps MT-1, MTSh |
The T43 class were a group of minesweepers built for the Soviet Navy and Soviet allies in the 1950s and 1960s. The Soviet designation was Project 254.
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The design specification was issued in 1946 and the design was approved in 1948. The ships were built with steel hulls which were degaussed but no specific attempt was made to reduce electrical or acoustic signature. Several versions were produced:
A total of 178 ships were built
All ships are believed to have been retired.
Gardiner, Robert (ed.). Conway's all the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995. London: Conway Maritime. ISBN 0851776051. OCLC 34284130. Also published as Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen; Budzbon, Przemysław. Conway's all the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1557501327. OCLC 34267261.
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