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SOVIET NAVY (USSR)

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

armed merchant cruisers of Civil war 1918 - 1922

more than 1000 BRT

Name

Launched // Comm.

Builder

Tonnage, BRT or Disp., t

Dimensions, m

Speed, kts

Engine, Power hp

Armament

Fate

Австралия [Avstraliya] (ex-Вентюр [Ventyur]), 4.1920- Бела Кун [Bela Kun] 1899 // 4.1920 UK 1275 75.7x9.8x4.0 11 1000 3 - 102/60 to mercantile service 6.1920
Ага Селим [Aga Selim], 3.1919- Роза Люксембург [Roza Lyuxemburg] 1897 // 1.1919 Germany 1260 55.5x9.1x3.4 9 480 2 - 130/53 gunboat late 1920, survey vessel 1.1923
Бамбак [Bambak], 1.1919- Ильич [Ilyich] 1894 // 11.1918 UK 1051 76.2x8.5x3.7 10 750 4 - 102/60, 1 - 75/48 to mercantile service 7.1920
Дело [Delo], 1.1919- III Интернационал [III Internatsional] 1908 // late 1918 Kolomna 3636 108.4x14.0x7.6 10 1000 5 - 130/53, 2 - 75/48, 2 - 47/40 to mercantile service 6.1920
Европа [Evropa] (ex-Юпитер [Yupiter]) 1897 // 5.1920 UK 1583 84.0x9.7x4.0 11 1250   to mercantile service 7.1920
Коломна [Kolomna], 1.1919- Красное Знамя [Krasnoe Znamya] 1888 // 10.1918 Kolomna 1147 77.0x10.6x3.7 9.5 800 4 - 102/60, 2 - 76/28 to mercantile service 7.1920
Слава [Slava] 1903 // 5.1920 Nizhniy Novgorod 1690 82.4x11.0x4.0 12 1500 1 - 152/44, 1 - 102/60 to mercantile service 6.1920
Иван Сусанин [Ivan Susanin], 5.1920- Лейтенант Дрейер [Leytenant Dreyer] 1899 // 4.1920 UK 2600 68.6x10.0x6.0 14 3200 2 - 130/53 to mercantile service 6.1921
Канада [Kanada] (ex-Earl Gray), 5.1920- Третий Интернационал [Tretiy Internatsional], 7.1921- Фёдор Литке [Fyodor Litke] 1909 // 4.1920 UK 5500 83.2x17.4x8.6 14 7000 4 - 130/53 to mercantile service 6.1921, guard ship 1.1940, returned 4.1940, guard ship 7.1941, returned 2.1944
Князь Пожарский [Knyaz Pozharskiy], 5.1920- Лейтенант Шмидт [Leytenant Shmidt] 1916 // 4.1920 UK 4600 74.6x17.1x8.4 14 6500 5 - 130/53 to mercantile service 6.1921
Советский Азербайджан [Sovetskiy Azerbaydjan] (ex-Пушкин [Pushkin]) 1893 // 5.1920 Sweden 1091 74.8x9.6x4.0 14 640 2 - 130/53 gunboat 9.1920, board guard ship 7.1921, to mercantile service 1939
Индигирка [Indigirka] 1886 // 4.1923 UK 2200 96.0x11.6x6.7 10 1500   returned 7.1923
Олег [Oleg] 1896 // 11.1922 Sweden   61.7x9.2x4.8 9 650 2 - 57 returned 11.1922
Ставрополь [Stavropol], 6.1935- Ворошиловск [Voroshilovsk] 1907 // 4.1923 Germany 2300 60.3x10.0x4.6 9.5 700 2 - 76/28, 2 - 75/48 returned 7.1923, minelayer 5.1932, BU 1951
Томск [Tomsk], 12.1922- Главком Уборевич [Glavkom Uborevich], 2.1923- Томск [Tomsk] 1913 // 11.1922 St. Petersburg 2692 87.2x12.3x5.6 10 1200 2 - 75/48 returned 1.1923, minelayer 8.1932, depot ship 4.1945

100 - 1000 BRT

Макаров I [Makarov I] (ex-Первый Владимир Макаров и Сыновья [Pervyy Vladimir Makarov i Synovya]) (1898, 252, 2 - 102/60, 10.1918 - 9.1920)

Project history: Merchant vessels mobilized for service on seas, lakes and also rivers.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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