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IMPERIAL BORDER GUARD CORPS / IMPERIAL RUSSIAN NAVY (RUSSIA)

BORDER GUARD SHIPS

KONDOR border guard cruisers (1902 - 1904)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Кондор [Kondor]     Bjorneborg 1900 1902 1902 to Navy as despatch vessel 8.1914, scuttled 4.1918
Беркут [Berkut]     Bjorneborg 1902 1904 1904 to Navy as despatch vessel 8.1914, scuttled 4.1918

 

Displacement normal, t

322

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

48.6

Breadth, m

6.60

Draught, m

2.40

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

13.5

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts) 2000(10)

Armament

4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss

Complement

 

   

Project history: Custom cruisers for Baltic.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Both were heavy damaged by crews at Bjorneborg in April 1918 to avoid capture by Finnish troops.

 

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