Kuha class minesweeper
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There have been two different classes of minesweepers named Kuha in the Finnish Navy
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Finnish Navy
The Finnish Navy is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces. The Navy employs 2,300 people and about 4,300 conscripts are trained each year. Finnish Navy vessels are given the ship prefix "FNS" simply short for "Finnish Navy Ship"...
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- Kuha class minesweepers (1941)Kuha class minesweepers (1941)The Kuha class minesweepers was a series of eighteen small minesweepers of the Finnish Navy. The ships were constructed in three batches between 1941 and 1946. Some of the vessels participated in World War II, but their main mission were to be the demining of the Gulf of Finland after the war.The...
- Kuha class minesweepers (1974)Kuha class minesweepers (1974)The Kuha class minesweepers is a series of six inshore minesweepers of the Finnish Navy. The ships were constructed in 1974-1975. All the vessels of the class were modified and modernized in the late 1990s. This included e.g. a lengthening of the hull....