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BULGARIAN NAVY (BULGARIA)

TORPEDO SHIPS

NADEZHDA torpedo gunboat (1898)

Nadezhda 1912

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Надежда [Nadezhda]      C A de la Gironde, Bordeaux, France 1897 10.9.1898 10.1898 abandoned 12.1918
 

Displacement normal, t

715

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

67.0

Breadth, m

8.30

Draught, m

3.10 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 4 Lagrafel d'Allest boilers

Power, h. p.

2600

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

coal 110

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 100/45 Canet M1893, 2 x 1 - 65/50 M1891, 2 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 2 x 1 - 381 TT

Complement

97

Project history: Steel-hulled torpedo gunboat, flagship of Bulgarian navy.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: During the First Balkan War 1912-1913 guns of Nadezhda were landed due to her poor condition. They were later fitted again but were landed once more in 1915. 16.9.1918 Nadezhda departed base to Sevastopol and never returned to homeport. Crew abandoned her at Sevastopol in December 1918.

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