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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