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IMPERIAL RUSSIAN NAVY / SOVIET NAVY (RUSSIA / USSR)

COASTAL FORCES

D type river armoured motor gunboats (1916-1917)

Dozornyy 1917

Names

18 boats (¹1 - 18 [No1 - 18]) inc:

Äîçîðíûé [Dozornyy], 4.1919- ¹5 [No5], 9.1919- ¹9 [No9]

Ðàçâåä÷èê [Razvedchik], 4.1919- ¹6 [No6]

¹1 [No1], 1928- Ä-1 [D-1], 3.1934- ÁÊ-1 [BK-1], 2.1939- ¹132 [No132]

¹2 [No2], 1921- ÑÊ-2 [SK-2], 1928- Ä-2 [D-2], 3.1934- ÁÊ-2 [BK-2], 2.1939- ¹133 [No133]

¹3 [No3], 1921- ÑÊ-3 [SK-3], 1928- Ä-3 [D-3], 3.1934- ÁÊ-3 [BK-3], 2.1939- ¹134 [No134]

¹4 [No4], 1921- ÑÊ-4 [SK-4], 1928- Ä-4 [D-4], 3.1934- ÁÊ-4 [BK-4], 2.1939- ¹135 [No135]

3 of No132 - 135 were salvaged and renamed ÁÊ-35 - 37 [BK-35 - 37] ÁÊ-36 [BK-36] and ÁÊ-37 [BK-37] were commissioned again in May 1944

Builders

Mullins, USA: No1-18

Commissioned

1916 - 1917: No1-18

Losses

No6 (3.8.1919), No132 (9/1941), No133 (9/1941), No134 (9/1941), No135 (9/1941)

Transfers

none

Discarding

1921: No9

10/1945: BK-36, 37

 

Displacement normal, t

6.5

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

9.15

Breadth, m

2.44

Draught, m

0.65

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 Stirling gasoline engine

Power, h. p.

80

Max speed, kts

10.5

Fuel, t

gasoline

Endurance, nm(kts) 500(5)
Armour, mm belt: 5, turret: 6, CT: 6

Armament

1 x 2 - 7.6/94

Complement

7

 

Project history: River armoured sentry boats built under War Department order.

Ship protection: Bullet-proof protection.

Modernizations: late 1930s, No132 - 135: + 1 x 1 - 12.7/79.

Naval service: No significant events.

BK-2

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