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IMPERIAL RUSSIAN NAVY (RUSSIA)

TORPEDO SHIPS

BIORKE torpedo boats (1891 - 1892)

Biorke 1891

Names

Áèîðêý [Biorke], 4.1895- ¹111

Ðî÷åíñàëüì [Rochensalm], 4.1895- ¹112

Ãàïñàëü [Gapsal'], 4.1895- ¹113

Ìîîíçóíä [Moonzund], 4.1895- ¹114

Builders

Putilov, St. Petersburg: Biorke, Rochensalm, Gapsal', Moonzund

Completed

1891: Biorke, Rochensalm

1892: Gapsal', Moonzund

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1910: ¹111 - 114

 

Displacement normal, t

81

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

38.4

Breadth, m

4.47

Draught, m

2.61 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 locomotive boiler

Power, h. p.

1000 - 1100

Max speed, kts

17.8 - 19

Fuel, t

coal 17

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 381 TT

Complement

21

Project history: Boats with ram bows and two masts on which fore and aft sails could be set. The two TT trained 35° on each bow.

Modernizations: 1899, ¹112: re-boilered with Yarrow boiler (oil fuel)

1900, ¹114: was converted to oil fuel

Naval service: No significant events.

Biorke

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