Pulau Rau-class minesweeper
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 A Pulau Rau-class minesweeper of the Indonesian Navy | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Pulau Rau class |
| Builders | Abeking & Rasmussen |
| Operators | Indonesian Navy |
| Built | 1954-1957 |
| In service | 1954-1985 |
| Completed | 10 |
| Active | 0 |
| Lost | 0 |
| Retired | 10 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Motor minesweeper |
| Displacement | 160 tons (max) |
| Length | 41.1 m (134 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 5.80 m (19 ft 0 in) |
| Draught | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) |
| Propulsion | 2x MAN diesel engines; 1,836 hp |
| Speed | 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Range | 1,100 NM (2,000 km) |
| Complement | up to 38 |
| Armament |
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The Pulau Rau-class minesweepers were a class of ten motor minesweepers of the Indonesian Navy, in service during the Cold War.
In 1954, the Indonesian Navy ordered 10 Pulau Rau-class minesweepers from Abeking & Rasmussen in West Germany.[1] The Pulau Rau-class were modified R boats (i.e. motor minesweepers of a German World War II design) armed with one Bofors 40mm L/60 Mk 3 gun, two Oerlikon 20mm/70 Mk 10 guns and also mechanical minesweeping gear.[2] They were built between 1954 and 1957 and remained in service for the next thirty years.