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DJALITA dispatch vessel (1926)

Jalita 1926

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Джалита [Djalita], 1.1928- №14 [No14], 10.1928- Джалита [Djalita], 11.1928- №11 [No11], 1.1939- Джалита [Djalita]     St. Petersburg // Nikolayev 1914 // 1914 1925 8.1926 minesweeper 2.1927, test ship 1.1939, minesweeper 6.1941, sunk 29.8.1943

 

Displacement normal, t

400

Displacement full, t

470

Length, m

40.5

Breadth, m

6.20

Draught, m

2.90

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

300

Max speed, kts

8

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 7.6/94

Complement

39

   

Project history: Djalita was laid down as tugboat but completed only in 1926 as dispatch vessel for Navy.

Modernizations: 1927: - 2 x 1 - 7.6/94; + 1 x 1 - 45/43 21K, mechanical minesweeping gear

Naval service: Djalita since January, 1939 till June, 1941 served as test ship. Djalita was torpedoed 29.8.1943 by German submarine U24 off Sukhumi.

Djalita

 

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