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BORDER GUARD (USSR)

BORDER GUARD SHIPS AND CRAFT

auxiliary Border Guard ships

more than 1000 BRT

Name

Launched // Comm.

Builder

Tonnage, BRT or Disp., t

Dimensions, m

Speed, kts

Engine, Power hp

Armament

Fate

Ярославна [Yaroslavna] (ex-Lizystrada), 2.1924- Воровский [Vorovskiy] 1901 // 12.1916 Denny, Dumbarton, UK 2100 / 2300 97.2x12.2x5.5 12 4boilers, 2VTE, 7000, coal 530 2 - 102/60, 4 x 1 - 45/43, 2 x 1 - 12.7

complement 140

captured by Whites 8.1918, re-commissioned by Reds as AMC 4.1920, dispatch vessel 3.1921, border guard ship 11.1922, dispatch vessel 11.1923, guard ship 1.1924, border guard ship 4.1931, wrecked 23.9.1952

100 - 1000 BRT

Пурга [Purga] (ex-Боривой [Borivoy]) (1916, 950, 1930 - ../../1930s); Уран [Uran] (ex-Varonis) (1908, 247, 8.1940 - early 1950s)

Project history: Vorovskiy was built as yacht Lysistrata for American private owner. Designed speed was 17.5kts, on trials ship reached 18.93kts. In 1916 she was bought by Russian Government as dispatch vessel for Northern Flotilla, armed and renamed Yaroslavna.
    In 1920 she was repaired, re-armed and re-rated as Border Guard ship, renamed Vorovskiy and commissioned by Border Guard on Northern Ocean; in 1924 ship passed to the Far East. By the time of WWII she made no more than 10-12kts.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Vorovskiy 23.9.1952 ran aground in the Avacha Bay, raised and towed off on repair to Vladivostok, but never repaired and subsequently broken up.

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