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IMPERIAL RUSSIAN NAVY / SOVIET NAVY (RUSSIA / USSR)

COASTAL FORCES

MI-8 motor launches (1919)

Names

Вихрь [Vikhr], 5.1920- МИ-8 [MI-8], 11.1920- Безупречный [Bezuprechnyy], 1.1921- И-3 [I-3], 4.1921- Безупречный [Bezuprechnyy], 1926- №4 [No4]

Скорый [Skoryy], 5.1920- МИ-11 [MI-11]

Смелый [Smelyy], 5.1920- МИ-12 [MI-12]

Свирепый [Svirepyy], 5.1920- МИ-13 [MI-13]

Страшный [Strashnyy], 5.1920- МИ-14 [MI-14]

Вьюга [Vyuga], 5.1920- РИ-8 [RI-8], 8.1920- Отчаянный [Otchayannyy], 2.1921- T-11, 3.1921- MT-19, 6.1921- T-11, 7.1921- №37 [No37]

Builders

Norway: Vikhr', Skoryy, Smelyy, Svirepyy, Strashnyy, Vyuga

Commissioned

1919: Vikhr', Skoryy, Smelyy, Svirepyy, Strashnyy, Vyuga

Losses

Skoryy (7.6.1922)

Transfers

none

Discarding

1922: No37

1924: MI-14

1926: No4

1932: MI-12, 13

 

Displacement normal, t

39

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

21.0

Breadth, m

3.20

Draught, m

2.00

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 gasoline engines

Power, h. p.

160

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

gasoline

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 1 x 1 - 7.6/94

Complement

12

 

Project history: Boats built in Norway, at first commissioned by White Army, abandoned and commissioned by Reds in March 1920.

Modernizations: 9.1920, Otchayannyy: - 1 x 1 - 47/40; + mechanical minesweeping gear.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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