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KRAKÓW river monitors (1926)

Kraków 1939

Names

Kraków

Wilno

Builders

Zieleniewskiego Yd, Krakow, Poland: Kraków, Wilno

Completed

1926: Kraków, Wilno

Losses

Kraków (21.9.1939), Wilno (19.9.1939)

Transfers

none

Discarding

none

  

Displacement standard, t

70

Displacement full, t

90

Length, m

35.0

Breadth, m

6.10

Draught, m

0.39

No of shafts

2 in tunnels

Machinery

2 Perkun-Kromhout diesels

Power, h. p.

140

Max speed, kts

7.3

Fuel, t

diesel oil 3.5

Armour, mm belt: 6, turrets: 8 - 5, deck: 5, CT: 8 - 5

Armament

1 x 1 - 100/19 vz.14/19 how, 1 x 2 - 75/35 vz.1897/17, 4 x 1 - 7.9/92, mines

Complement

29

Project history: Ordered 31.12.1923. First ships projected and built in Poland.

Modernizations: 1932, both: - 1 x 1 - 100/19 vz.14/19, 1 x 2 - 75/36 vz.1897/17; + 1 x 2 - 100/25 vz.30 how, 1 x 1 - 100/25 vz.30 how

late 1930s, both: - 4 x 1 - 7.9/92; + 2 x 2 - 13.2/76

Naval service: Wilno was scuttled by crew 19.9.1939 near Osowitze.

Kraków was scuttled by crew 21.9.1939 on river Pna. In the same month she was salvaged by Soviet troops and commissioned by Siviet Navy 24.10.1939 as Smolensk.

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