Drawing made by G.J. Frans Naerebout and published in Van Zee tot Zee
The first of the Coniston-class. Laid down as the Red Ant at John I. Thornycroft&Company, Southampton, England in 1951, launched with pennant M 1101 on 9 July 1952, completed 1953 and commissioned in February already called Coniston and finally broken up in 1970.
With a displacement of 447 tons/440 long tons were her dimensions 46 x 8,5 x 2,4 metres or 152 x 28 x 7 feet. The original Mirrlees diesel was later replaced by a 3.000 shp for each shaft Napier Deltic allowing a speed of 15 knots. Her crew numbered 33 men. The armament consisted of 1-4cm Bofors gun and 1 machinegun.
