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IMPERIAL RUSSIAN NAVY / SOVIET NAVY (RUSSIA / USSR)

COASTAL FORCES

K type armoured river motor gunboats (1916-1917)

No1 1918

Names

9 or more boats (¹1-9) [No1-9], inc.

¹1 [No1], 2.1919- Èíòåðíàöèîíàë [Internatsional], 4.1919- ¹1 [No1], 8.1929- K-1, 8.1934- ÁÊ-105 [BK-105], 4.1937- ¹71 [No71], 2.1944- ÁÊ-71 [BK-71]

¹2 [No2], 2.1919- ¹302 [No302]

¹3 [No3], 11.1919- ¹310 [No310]

¹4 [No4], 2.1919- ¹307 [No307]

¹5 [No5], 8.1929- K-5, 8.1934- ÁÊ-109 [BK-109], 4.1937- ¹75 [No75], 2.1944- ÁÊ-75 [BK-75]

¹6 [No6], 11.1919- ¹311 [No311], 8.1929- K-4, 8.1934- ÁÊ-108 [BK-108], 4.1937- ¹74 [No74], 2.1944- ÁÊ-74 [BK-74]

¹7 [No7], 2.1919- ¹308 [No308]

¹8 [No8], 2.1919- ¹309 [No309], 8.1929- K-3, 8.1934- ÁÊ-107 [BK-107], 4.1937- ¹73 [No73], 2.1944- ÁÊ-73 [BK-73]

¹9 [No9], 2.1919- Ñïàðòàê [Spartak], 4.1919- ¹4 [No4], 4.1920- Ñïàðòàê [Spartak]

Builders

Bekker, Reval: No1-9

Commissioned

1917: No1-9

Losses

No307 (22.4.1921)

Transfers

none

Discarding

1920: No302

1923: Spartak

1925: No310, 308

1951: BK-71, 73 - 75

 

Displacement normal, t

24

Displacement full, t

25

Length, m

20.4 oa 20.2 wl

Breadth, m

3.18

Draught, m

0.61

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Buffalo gasoline engines

Power, h. p.

150

Max speed, kts

12.5

Fuel, t

gasoline 2.2

Endurance, nm(kts) 240(6)
Armour, mm belt: 5, deck: 4, CT: 6, shields: 6, MG turrets: 6

Armament

2 x 1 - 76/16 obr.1909g mountain guns, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94

Complement

12

 

Project history: River armoured gunboats ordered in 1915 by War Department, designed on the basis of Kopyo class MGB.

Ship protection: Bullet-proof protection.

Modernizations: 1930s, BK-105, 107 - 109: gasoline engines were replaced by new petrol engines (1600hp, 15kts).

Naval service: No significant events.

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