6°00′29″S 12°24′09″E / 6.0081372°S 12.4024879°E
A. F. Dufour (M903)
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Fancy |
Namesake | Fancy |
Ordered | 25 June 1941 |
Builder | Blyth Shipbuilding Company, Blyth |
Laid down | 22 July 1941 |
Launched | 20 April 1943 |
Commissioned | 21 November 1943 |
Decommissioned | December 1947 |
Identification | Pennant number: J308 |
Fate | Sold to Belgium, 1951 |
Belgium | |
Name | A.F. Dufour |
Namesake | A.F. Dufour |
Acquired | 1951 |
Commissioned | 9 August 1951 |
Decommissioned | 1957 |
Renamed | N'Zadi |
Namesake | N'Zadi |
Decommissioned | 30 June 1960 |
Stricken | 1960 |
Identification |
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Fate | Abandoned, 1960 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Algerine-class minesweeper |
Displacement |
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Length | 225 ft (69 m) o/a |
Beam | 35 ft 6 in (10.82 m) |
Draught | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
Range | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 85 |
Armament |
HMS Fancy (J308) was a steam turbine-powered Algerine-class minesweeper during the Second World War. She survived the war and was sold to Belgium in 1951 as A.F. Dufour (M903).