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IMPERIAL RUSSIAN NAVY (RUSSIA)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

ALBATROS port vessels (1910)

Albatros 1914

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Альбатрос [Albatros], 10.1916- №160, later T-370     Bellino-Fenderich, Odessa 9.1909 12.1909 7.1910 captured by Germany 1.5.1918
Баклан [Baklan], 10.1916- №161, later T-371     Bellino-Fenderich, Odessa 9.1909 1.1910 7.1910 captured by Germany 1.5.1918

 

 

Displacement normal, t

106

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

25.9

Breadth, m

5.33

Draught, m

1.52

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 2 boilers

Power, h. p.

137

Max speed, kts

8.4 - 8.7

Fuel, t

coal 10
Endurance, nm(kts) 400(7)

Armament

4 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement 26

Project history: First-ever purpose built minesweepers.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Both were captured by German troops at Sevastopol 1.5.1918 and later escaped with Wrangel to Bizerte.

© Ivan Gogin, 2014