Kuha-class minesweeper (1974)
Kuha 26 | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Kuha class |
| Builders | Oy Laivateollisuus Ab, Turku, Finland |
| Operators | Finnish Navy |
| Succeeded by | Katanpää class |
| Planned | 14 |
| Completed | 6 |
| Canceled | 8 |
| Active | 4 |
| Retired | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Minesweeper |
| Displacement | 127 t (125 long tons) fully loaded |
| Length | 31.6 m (103 ft 8 in) |
| Beam | 6.9 m (22 ft 8 in) |
| Draught | 2.0 m (6 ft 7 in) |
| Installed power | 2 × Cummins NT-380M diesel engines, 450 kW (600 bhp) |
| Propulsion | 1 shaft, controllable pitch propeller |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 14 |
| Sensors & processing systems | Racal Decca radar |
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The Kuha-class minesweepers (English: Zander) are a series of six inshore minesweepers of the Finnish Navy. The ships were constructed in 1974–1975. All the class vessels were modified and modernized in the late 1990s, including lengthening the hull. Two of the class were withdrawn from service in 2012. The rest of the class will retire after the Katanpää-class mine countermeasure vessels enter service.