Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
Гогланд [Gogland] | Mühlgraben Yd, Riga // Metal Wks, Petrograd | 12/1913 | --- | --- | suspended 8.1914, cancelled 10.1917 | ||
Гренгамн [Grengamn] | Mühlgraben Yd, Riga // Metal Wks, Petrograd | 12/1913 | --- | --- | suspended 8.1914, cancelled 10.1917 | ||
Кульм [Kulm] | Mühlgraben Yd, Riga // Metal Wks, Petrograd | 12/1913 | --- | --- | suspended 8.1914, cancelled 10.1917 | ||
Патрас [Patras] | Mühlgraben Yd, Riga // Metal Wks, Petrograd | 12/1913 | --- | --- | suspended 8.1914, cancelled 10.1917 | ||
Рымник [Rymnik] | Mühlgraben Yd, Riga | 1913-14 | --- | --- | cancelled 1915 | ||
Смоленск [Smolensk] | Mühlgraben Yd, Riga | 1913-14 | --- | --- | cancelled 1915 | ||
Стирсудден [Stirsudden] | Mühlgraben Yd, Riga | 1913-14 | --- | --- | cancelled 1915 | ||
Тенедос [Tenedos] | Mühlgraben Yd, Riga | 1913-14 | --- | --- | cancelled 1915 | ||
Хиос [Khios] | Mühlgraben Yd, Riga | 1913-14 | --- | --- | cancelled 1915 |
Displacement normal, t |
1350 |
Displacement full, t |
1480 |
Length, m |
99.3 |
Breadth, m |
9.50 |
Draught, m |
3.00 |
No of shafts |
2 |
Machinery |
2 Schichau steam turbines, 5 Schichau boilers |
Power, h. p. |
32000 |
Max speed, kts |
33 |
Fuel, t |
oil 400 |
Endurance, nm(kts) | 2800(15) |
Armament |
4 x 1 - 102/60, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94, 3 x 3 - 450 TT, 80 mines |
Complement |
150 |
Project history: Ordered under the 1912 Programme for the Baltic Fleet in the German Schichau Yd in spite of growing tensions between these Powers, simply because that yard was able to offer a price 25% lower than the Russian ones. The condition was raised however that these ships had to be assembled in Russia, so a Schichau subsidiary yard was founded in 1913 at Riga. The contract design provided 2 102mm/60, 12 450mm TT and this was changed in 1915 to 4 102mm, 6 450mm TT but finally one triple TT set was added. In June 1915 the yard was taken over by the Russian Government and Metal Wks were ordered to complete the 4 ships (Gogland, Grengamn, Kulm and Patras) in 1918 as Fleet Minesweepers armed with 5 102mm/60, 1 40mm AA, 6 450mm TT. The others were re-ordered to be built according to the Orfey class design. The Fleet Minesweepers, being 18% ready in February 1917, were subsequently cancelled with the others which had not been laid down by that date.
© Ivan Gogin, 2014