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SOVIET NAVY (USSR)

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

river floating batteries 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

№1 [No1] (ex-Ярополк [Yaropolk]) 1915 // 12.1918 Kolomna   107.5x17.2x2.4 - - 2 - 152/44, 1 - 76/28 to mercantile service 6.1920
№2 [No2] (ex-Святополк [Svyatopolk]) 1915 // 12.1918 Kolomna   107.5x17.2x2.4 - - 2 - 152/44 sunk 21.5.1919
№3 [No3] (ex-Золотая Рыбка [Zolotaya Rybka]), 5.1919- №2 [No2] 1913 // spring 1919 Kolomna   123.8x16.3x2.1 - - 2 - 152/44, 1 - 76/28, 1 - 37/20 to mercantile service 6.1920
№3 [No3] (ex-Вячеслав [Vyacheslav]) 1910s // 6.1919     110.8x14.6x1.9 - - 2 - 152/44, 1 - 76/28 to mercantile service 6.1920
№4 [No4] (ex-Патриарх Гермоген [Patriarkh Germogen]) 1914 // summer 1919 Nizhniy Novgorod   103.6x15.2x3.2 - - 2 - 152/44, 1 - 76/28, 1 - 37/20 to mercantile service 8.1920
№5 [No5] (ex-Людмила [Lyudmila]) 1913 // 8.1919     96.0x15.0x2.4 - - 3 - 75/48 to mercantile service 7.1920
№6 [No6] (ex-Лариса [Larisa]) 1888 // 8.1919 Votkinsk   74.0x11.1x2.4 - -   to mercantile service 1920
Которость [Kotorost] 1905 // early 1920     86.7x11.1x1.8 - - 2 - 152/44 to mercantile service 7.1920
Царь-Девица [Tsar-Devitsa] 1915 // 7.1919     107.8x17.2x2.4 - - 2 - 130/53 to mercantile service 5.1920
Атаман Разин [Ataman Razin] (ex-Тёща [Tyoshcha]) 1914 // 7.1918 Kolomna 1905 106.6x17.0x2.1 - - 4 - 130/53 to mercantile service 7.1920
Серёжа [Seryozha] 1917 // 7.1918     83.2xx - - 4 - 102/60, 1 - 75/48 to mercantile service 10.1919

100 - 1000 BRT

Финляндия [Finlyandiya], 11.1918 - Память Товарища Урицкого [Pamyat Tovarishcha Uritskogo] (1918, 875, 4 - 130/55, 10.1918 - 7.1920); №1 [No1] (ex-Пётр Пименов [Pyotr Pimenov]), 3.1919 - №7 [No7] (1913, 200, 7.1918 - 6.11.1919); №1 [No1] (, 188, 1 - 203/10, 1 - 76/17, 8.1919 - 1920); №2 [No2] (, 188, 1 - 203/10, 1 - 76/17, 8.1919 - 5.1920); №2 [No2] (ex-Григорий [Grigoriy]), 3.1919 - №5 [No5] (1902, 265, 1 - 75/50, 8.1918 - 5.1920); №3 [No3] (ex-Сосна [Sosna]) (1911, 260, 2 - 75/50, 7.1918 - 5.1920); №4 [No4] (ex-Восток [Vostok]), 3.1919 - №6 [No6] (1904, 225, 1 - 76/30, 1 - 75/50, 8.1919 - 5.1920); №1 [No1], 4.1919 - Москва [Moskva], 6.1920 - ПБ-24 [PB-24], 8.1920 - Красный Великан [Krasnyy Velikan] (,, 2 - 102/60, 9.1918 - 7.1921); №2 [No2], 4.1919 - Кронштадт [Kronshtadt] (,, 2 - 102/60, 9.1918 - 4.1920); №3 [No3], 4.1919 - Петроград [Petrograd] (,, 2 - 120/45, 10.1918 - 5.1920); №4 [No4], 4.1919 - Туркестан [Turkestan], 6.1920 - ПБ-23 [PB-23], 8.1920 - Красный Рыцарь [Krasnyy Rytsar] (,, 2 - 152/45, 1.1919 - 7.1921); №5 [No5], 4.1919 - Канск [Kansk] (,, 2 - 152/45, 1.1919 - 19.6.1919); №6 [No6], 4.1919 - Венгрия [Vengriya] (,, 2 - 130/55, 1.1919 - 5.1920); №7 [No7], 4.1919 - Бавария [Bavariya] (,, 2 - 130/55, 1.1919 - 4.1920); №8 [No8] (,, autumn 1919 - 4.1920); №9 [No9], 4.1920 - №31 [No31], 6.1920 - ПБ-3 [PB-3] (,, 2 - 152/45, autumn 1919 - 10.1920); №10 [No10], 4.1920 - №32 [No32], 6.1920 - ПБ-4 [PB-4] (,, 2 - 152/45, autumn 1919 - 10.1920)

Project history: River merchant vessels (mostly barges including non-self-propelled) converted to floating batteries.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No2 was sunk by ships of White Fleet 21.5.1919 on Volga.

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