page_title: Lerici-class minehunter
section_title: Lerici class
hierarchical_section_title: Lerici-class minehunter / Design and service history / Lerici class
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Il cacciamine Vieste
context_page_description: The Lerici class is a class of minehunters constructed by Intermarine SpA and owned and operated by the Italian Navy. The class incorporates two subclasses: the first four ships are referred to specifically as the first series of the Lerici class, while eight more ships produced to a slightly modified design are known as "second series Lericis" or as the Gaeta class.
  The class design has also been used as the basis for ships of the Royal Malaysian Navy, the Nigerian Navy, the United States Navy, the Royal Australian Navy, and the Royal Thai Navy. Three updated vessels are under construction for the Finnish Navy. The Republic of Korea Navy operates an unlicensed derivative, known as the Ganggyeong class.
context_section_description: The four Lerici class ships were launched from September 1982 through to April 1985, and were all commissioned into the Italian Navy during 1985.
  Lerici class ships have a displacement of 620 tons full load, 50 metres (160 ft) long, 9.9 metres (32 ft) wide, and a draught of 2.6 metres (8.5 ft). The ships have a maximum speed of 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph), provided by a single diesel engine (GMT BL.230-8M for 1,600 HP) connected to an electric engine (1,985 HP) with a variable-pitch propellor. This speed is reduced to 6 knots (11 km/h; 6.9 mph) for mine-warfare operations; three active rudders (small propellors mounted in a unit which can rotate through 360 degrees, powered by three diesel-engines generators Isotta Fraschini ID-36-SS6V) are used to keep the minehunters on station. The ships have a range of 1,500 nautical miles (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) at operational speed.
  Each ship has a standard complement of 47, made up of 4 officers, 7 clearance divers, and 36 ratings. They are equipped with one hyperbaric chamber, one mechanical minesweeper system "Oropesa" Mk4, two ROV Whitehead-Riva Calzoni MIN-77 (then replaced by one ROV Gaymarine Pluto GIGAS) and Gaymarine Pluto, remote-operated submersibles for mine investigation and clearance, and VDS FIAR SQQ-14 (IT) sonar. CMS (Combat Management System) is Datamat MM/SSN-714(V)3. 
  Two navigation radars: one GEM Elettronica SPN-754 (I band) and one GEM Elettronica SPN-753(V)1 ARPA (I band), completed by integrated navigation system Motorola MRS III. 
  The ships are armed with a single Oerlikon 20 mm cannon (then replaced by Browning M2 12,7 mm).
caption: Vieste
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