OVERVIEW: The VAN HAVERBEKE (ex-USS AGILE) class minesweeper is a diesel powered powered, wooden hull, ocean going minesweeper.

DETAILS:

NOTES: Displacement: 720 tons standard
       Speed: 14 knts
       Range: 3000 nm @ 10 knts
       Complement: 72
       In Commission: 1955 
       Completed: 7 (in Belgium service)  

SOURCES: Gardiner, Robert, and Norman Friedman. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1947-1982. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 1983, pg 2-3.



