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IMPERIAL BORDER GUARD CORPS / IMPERIAL RUSSIAN NAVY (RUSSIA)

BORDER GUARD SHIPS

STRAZH custom cruisers (1874)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Страж [Strazh]     Bjorneborg     1874 to Navy as despatch vessel 8.1914, wrecked 10.1916
Часовой [Chasovoy]     Bjorneborg     1874 to Navy as despatch vessel 8.1914, captured by British 1918

 

Displacement normal, t

230

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

33.0

Breadth, m

6.40

Draught, m

2.50

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VC

Power, h. p.

300

Max speed, kts

11

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 87/17 4pdr obr. 1867

Complement

36

   

Project history: Custom 'cruisers' for Baltic.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Strazh wrecked in October 1916. Chasovoy was captured by British troops in Caspian Sea in 1918.

 

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