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TORPEDO SHIPS

No212 torpedo boats (1902)

No212 1904

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
¹212 [No212]   1657 Crichton, St. Petersburg 2.1900 Autumn 1901 10.1902 minesweeper 8.1914, dispatch vessel 4.1915, captured by Finland 13.4.1918 (S6)
¹213 [No213]   1658 Crichton, St. Petersburg 2.1900 8.11.1901 10.1902 minesweeper 8.1914, dispatch vessel 4.1915, interned by Germany 12.4.1918 - 5.1918, minesweeper 5.1922, TS 11.1923, harbour craft 8.1924

 

Displacement normal, t

204

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

53.5

Breadth, m

5.25

Draught, m

1.57

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 4 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

3800

Max speed, kts

24

Fuel, t

coal 60

Endurance, nm(kts) 1200(12)

Armament

3 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 1 - 381 TT, 2 x 1 - 381 TT

Complement

26

Project history: Built under drawings of torpedo boat Ussuri. Unlike a prototype they had other hull structure and boilers. Intended for service in the Far East. In connection with beginning of Russian-Japanese war both boats were returned to Baltic. In 1914 both were converted to minesweepers.

Modernizations: 1914, both: - 1 - 381 TT, 2 x 1 - 381 TT; + mechanical minesweeping gear

1915, both: - 3 x 1 - 37/20, minesweeping gear; + 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94

1919, No213: + mechanical minesweeping gear

Naval service: In 1918 No212 was captured by Finnish nationalists.

No213

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

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