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PIKKER gunboat (1940)

Pikker 1940

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Pikker     Tallinn N Yd   1939 1940 captured by USSR 13.8.1940 (command ship Οθκκεπ [Pikker])

 

Displacement standard, t

500

Displacement full, t

540

Length, m

57.0

Breadth, m

7.35

Draught, m

2.60

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 diesels

Power, h. p.

1900

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94

Complement

43

   

Project history: Unique combat ship built in Estonia. Intended for use as patrol and Presidential yacht.

Modernizations: None

Naval service: After entering of Estonia into USSR Pikker was commissioned as command ship Pikker (since 1941 Kiev, since 1942 Luga, later Ilmen`. Since 1948 ship served on Black Sea as dispatch vessel Rioni, since 1961 as survey vessel Moskovskiy Universitet. Ship was stricken only in 1978.

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