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KORSHUN border guard cruiser (1900)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Коршун [Korshun]     Bellino-Fenderich, Odessa     1900 to Navy as despatch vessel 8.1914, captured by Germans 1.5.1918

 

Displacement normal, t

100

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

30.5

Breadth, m

6.10

Draught, m

1.50

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 diesel

Power, h. p.

225

Max speed, kts

8

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 380(6)

Armament

2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss

Complement

36

   

Project history: Custom 'cruiser' for Baltic.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Korshun presumably was seized by Germans in May 1918.

 

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