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LEMBIT gunboat (1907/1918)

Lembit 1918

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Lembit (ex-Bieber, ex-Αξαπ [Bobr])     Nevskiy Wks, St. Petersburg, Russia 6.1906 12.6.1907 8.1907 // 11.1918 BU 1925

 

Displacement normal, t

980

Displacement full, t

1200

Length, m

66.5

Breadth, m

11.0

Draught, m

2.20 mean 2.41 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 4 Belleville boilers

Power, h. p.

800

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

coal 130

Armament

2 x 1 - 120/43 Canet, 4 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 3 x 1 - 7.6/94, 40 mines

Complement

148

Project history: Ex-Russian gunboat Bobr captured by Germans in April 1918 and served as workshop Bieber. She was transferred by them to Estonian in November 1918.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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