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SOVIET NAVY (USSR)

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

netlayers of WWII

more than 1000 BRT

Name

Compl. // Comm.

Builder

Tonnage, BRT or Disp., t

Dimensions, m

Speed, kts

Engine, Power hp

Armament

Fate

Профсоюз [Profsoyuz] (ex-Ловать [Lovat]) 1912 // 11.1939   1535 67.0x11.5x2.8 8 520 1 - 45 returned 10.1940, netlayer 7.1941, transport 9.1945

100 - 1000 BRT

Гарибальди [Garibaldi] (ex-№2 [No2], ex-Шквал [Shkval]) (1903, 200, 7.1919 - 11.1919, 10.1939 - 5.1940, 7.1941 - 2.1945); СБ-58 [SB-58] (ex-П-15 [P-15]), 1945 - ЗБС-1 [ZBS-1] (1939, 459, 2 - 76/30, 1941 - 1946)

Project history: Merchant vessels converted to netlayers.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Profsoyuz was commissioned at first time in May 1915 as minesweeper No3, reclassified as minelayer Lovat in October and transferred to mercantile owner in August 1922.

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