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BURAN guard ship (1937/1946)

Buran 1946

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Áóðàí [Buran] (ex-F7)   498 Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany 1.1935 25.5.1935 2.1937 // 1.1946 test ship 12.1946

 

Displacement standard, t

712

Displacement full, t

1028

Length, m

73.5 wl 76.0 oa

Breadth, m

8.80

Draught, m

2.59 normal, 3.24 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Blohm & Voss geared steam turbines, 2 Velox-Benson boilers

Power, h. p.

14000

Max speed, kts

28

Fuel, t

oil 216

Endurance, nm(kts) 1500(20)

Armament

2 x 1 - 105/45 SK C/32, 2 x 2 - 37/83 SK C/30, 4 x 1 - 20/65 C/30, 4 DCR (36), 50 - 62 mines

Electronic equipment presumably GHG hydrophone

Complement

121

Project history: German escort of F class, converted in 1940 to torpedo recovery vessel and transferred as war reparation.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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

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