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TORPEDO SHIPS

LEYTENANT BURAKOV torpedo boats (1905-1906)

Metkiy 1910

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Лейтенант Бураков [Leytenant Burakov]     F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre, France early 1905 3.7.1905 12.1905 dispatch vessel 3.1912, sunk 12.8.1917
Меткий [Metkiy]     F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre, France early 1905 7.7.1905 early 1906 stricken 5.1922
Исполнительный [Ispolnitelnyy]     F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre, France early 1905 12.8.1905 1.1906 capsized 12.12.1914
Искусный [Iskusnyy]     F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre, France early 1905 24.7.1905 1.1906 dispatch vessel 9.1914, destroyer 1.1915, stricken 1.1924
Крепкий [Krepkiy]     F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre, France early 1905 6.9.1905 Summer 1906 stricken 12.1924
Молодецкий [Molodetskiy]     F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre, France early 1905 28.9.1905 1.1906 stricken 1923
Лёгкий [Lyogkiy]     F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre, France early 1905 10.10.1905 9.1906 interned by Germany 12.4.1918 - 5.1918, TS 10.1920, stricken 1924
Мощный [Moshchnyy]     F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre, France Summer 1905 16.10.1905 12.1905 interned by Germany 12.4.1918 - 5.1918, stricken 11.1925
Ловкий [Lovkiy]     F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre, France Summer 1905 28.10.1905 4.1906 stricken 6.1925
Летучий [Letuchiy]     F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre, France Summer 1905 29.11.1905 4.1906 capsized 12.12.1914
Лихой [Likhoy]     F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre, France Summer 1905 26.12.1905 4.1906 stricken 5.1922

 

Displacement normal, t

402

Displacement full, t

492

Length, m

56.5

Breadth, m

6.40

Draught, m

3.51

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 4 Normand boilers

Power, h. p.

5700

Max speed, kts

27

Fuel, t

coal 100 - 110

Endurance, nm(kts) 1000(14)

Armament

2 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 6 x 1 - 7.6/94, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

67

Project history: Similar to Osyotr class destroyers built in France, differed by presence of mine rails on a shelterdeck that has finished stability dangerous limits. Rated as torpedo boats, since September, 1907 as destroyers.

Modernizations: 1912, Leytenant Burakov; 1914, Iskusnyy: - 2 x 1 - 450 TT

1913, all except Leytenant Burakov: - 4 x 1 - 7.6/94; + 10 mines

Naval service: Leytenant Burakov 30.7.1917 was mined and has sunk off Ledzund (Gulf of Riga). Letuchiy and Ispolnitelny, passing to minelaying operation, have got to a storm, overturned and sank in Gulf of Finland 12.12.1914.

Likhoy

Krepkiy

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