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ESTONIAN NAVY (ESTONIA)

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

minelayers

Ristna 1940

100 - 1000 t of displacement

Ristna (ex-�18 [No18], ex-������� ϸ�� [Apostol Pyotr]) (1906, 600, 175 mines, 1920 - 13.8.1940 Soviet ������ [Ristna]); Suurop (ex-�19 [No19], ex-������� ����� [Apostol Pavel] (1906, 600, 175 mines, 1920 - 13.8.1940 Soviet ����� [Surop])

Project history: Former Russian auxiliary minesweepers, captured by Finnish troops at Helsingfors in April, 1918 and transferred to Estonia in 1920. Both were modernized in 1926-1927.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Ivan Gogin, 2009-15