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      Bechelaren      

Country: Germany.
Class, [Type]: Bechelaren, [Gbt].

Builder: The plant Skoda, Komarno, Czechoslovakia.
Laid down date: 19 October 1930.
Launch date: 27 October 1931.
Commission date: 18 April 1939.
Decommission date: 1945.

Displacement ( tons ): 230 full load; 300 full load ( after modernization ).
Dimensions ( metres ): 47,5 x 6 x 1,1; 48,5 x 6 x 1,2 ( after modernization ).
Main machinery: 2 x steam turbines Skoda ( 2300 hp ), 2 x Yarrow boilers; 2 x diesels MWM ( 1800 hp ) ( after modernization ).
Speed ( knots ): 18.
Complement: 41.

Guns: 2 x 2 66mm 1930Mod, 1 x 1 20mm; 2 x 1 88mm, 1 x 1 37mm, 1 x 4 20mm AA ( after modernization ).
Mines: 10.
Comment: Former Czechoslovak river monitor President Masaryk, captured the division of Czechoslovakia April 18, 1939. Designed on the basis of the Austro-Hungarian river armored type Wels. In 1943-1944, was modernized in Linz. In 1945 came under the control of U.S. forces. Returned to Czechoslovakia in late 1947.

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