Bulgarian minehunter Tsibar

Career (Belgium)
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
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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