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IMPERIAL RUSSIAN NAVY (RUSSIA)

TORPEDO SHIPS

SOM torpedo boat (1900)

Som 1900

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Сом [Som], 3.1902- Боевой [Boyevoy]   637 Laird, Birkenhead, UK Autumn 1898 27.7.1899 3.1900 scuttled 2.1.1905

  

Displacement normal, t

350

Displacement full, t

412

Length, m

64.9 wl

Breadth, m

6.55

Draught, m

2.92 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 4 Laird boilers

Power, h. p.

6000

Max speed, kts

27.5

Fuel, t

coal 80

Endurance, nm(kts)

1578(15)

Armament

1 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 5 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 381 TT

Complement

62

Project history: A four-funnel destroyer of the usual Laird type, with the 75mm forward and two single deck TT abaft the second and fourth funnel.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Boyevoy was torpedoed by a Japanese picket boat on 24.7.1904 but managed to make Port Arthur. She was finally scuttled by own crew 2.1.1905 to avoid capture by Japanese.

Boyevoy

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

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