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ESTONIAN NAVY (ESTONIA)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

KALEV minesweeping boats (1914/1919)

Kalev 1919

Names

Kalev (ex-M.2 (Теплоход №2 [Teplokhod No2])), 1936- Keri

Tahkona (ex-M.3 (Теплоход №3 [Teplokhod No3]))

Builders

Crichton, St. Petersburg, Russia: Kalev, Tahkona

Completed

6/1914 // 1.1919: Kalev, Tahkona

Losses

Keri (13.8.1940 Soviet Кери [Keri])

Transfers

none

Discarding

1927: Tahkona

 

 

Displacement normal, t

34

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

20.7

Breadth, m

5.00

Draught, m

1.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Bolinder semi-diesels

Power, h. p.

60

Max speed, kts

7.2

Fuel, t

diesel oil 0.9

Endurance, nm(kts) 420(5)

Armament

1 x 1 - 7.6/94, 25 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement 8

Project history: Russian minelaying boats abandoned by Russians at Revel in February 1918, captured by Germans and transferred by them to Estonians as minesweepers.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Keri was incorporated into Soviet Baltic Fleet 13.8.1940.

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