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IMPERIAL RUSSIAN NAVY (RUSSIA)

TORPEDO SHIPS

CHIZHIK small torpedo boats (1877-1878)

similar Drakon 1900

Names

×èæèê [Chizhik], 9.1885- ¹45, 1.1886- ¹78, 4.1895- ¹93

Ñòðàóñ [Straus], 9.1885- ¹43, 1.1886- ¹77, 4.1895- ¹92

Ñîðîêà [Soroka], 9.1885- ¹39, 1.1886- ¹75, 4.1895- ¹82

Ñòåðëÿäü [Sterlyad'], 9.1885- ¹41, 1.1886- ¹76, 4.1895- ¹91

Builders

Baltic Wks on Galerny Is, St. Petersburg: Chizhik, Straus, Soroka, Sterlyad'

Completed

1877: Chizhik

1878: Straus, Soroka, Sterlyad'

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1904: ¹82

1907: ¹93, ¹92, ¹91

 

Displacement normal, t

23

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

21.7 wl

Breadth, m

3.00

Draught, m

1.09 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VC, 1 locomotive boiler

Power, h. p.

220

Max speed, kts

16

Fuel, t

coal 6

Endurance, nm(kts) 200(10)

Armament

spar torpedoes

Complement

9

Project history: Very small torpedo boats.

Modernizations: 1880s, all: - spar torpedoes; + 1 x 1 - 381 TT

Naval service: No significant events.

© Ivan Gogin, 2014