LKL Sūduvis (M52)
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Career (Germany) |
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Name: |
Koblenz (M1071) |
Namesake: |
Koblenz |
Builder: |
Burmester Werft, Bremen |
Launched: |
6 May 1957 |
Commissioned: |
8 July 1958 |
Decommissioned: |
1975 |
Refit: |
1960–64, to Type 331 minehunter |
Fate: |
donated to Lithuania, 1999 |
Career (Lithuania) |
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Name: |
Sūduvis (M52) |
Acquired: |
1999 |
Commissioned: |
22 June 1999 |
Status: |
in active service, as of 2015 |
General characteristics |
Class and type: | Lindau-class minesweeper |
Displacement: | 395 t (389 long tons) |
Length: | 47.1 m (154 ft 6 in) |
Beam: | 8.3 m (27 ft 3 in) |
Draught: | 3.71 m (12 ft 2 in) |
Propulsion: | 2 x MTU 871 diesel engines |
Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
Sensors and processing systems: | |
Armament: |
- Bofors L/70 (40 mm) cannons
- DK (12.7 mm) machine guns
- combat radio-electronic devices
- mine destruction charges
- 2 x Type PAP 104 underwater ROVs
- trawling equipment
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LKL Sūduvis (M52) is a minehunter of the Lithuanian Naval Force. Built in West Germany in 1957 as Koblenz (M1071), a Lindau-class (or Type 320) minesweeper for the German Navy, she was upgraded to a Type 331 minehunter in the early 1960s. Germany donated Koblenz to the Lithuanian Naval Force in 1999. The ship, renamed Sūduvis, formed the nucleus of the Lithuanian Naval Force's Squadron of Mine-hunters, which was established on 22 June 1999. The squadron was augmented in 2001 with the similar donation of sister ship Marburg, which became Kursis (M51).
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