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IMPERIAL RUSSIAN NAVY (RUSSIA)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

AMUR mine transports (1901)

Amur 1901

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
ΐμσπ [Amur]     Baltic Wks, St. Petersburg 1898 8.11.1898 1901 sunk 18.12.1904
Ενθρει [Yenisey]     Baltic Wks, St. Petersburg 1898 20.5.1899 1901 sunk 11.2.1904

 

 

Displacement normal, t

2590

Displacement full, t

2800

Length, m

91.4 pp 92.7 oa

Breadth, m

14.9

Draught, m

5.20 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 12 Belleville boilers

Power, h. p.

4900

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

coal 650

Endurance, nm(kts) 3600(10)

Armament

5 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 10 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 450 mines

Complement 304

Project history: Mine transports with the general appearance of small cruisers that served as minelayers in the Russo-Japanese War.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: One of the most successful of all mining operations was carried out by Amur on 14 May 1904 when she laid a field of 50 mines which sank the Japanese battleships Hatsuse and Yashima. The Yenisey was sunk by one of her own mines 11.2.1904 off Dalniy and the Amur was sunk on shallow water by Japanese 280mm howitzers at Port Arthur 18.12.1904 and finally exploded by own crew 2.1.1905 to avoid capture by Japanese.

Yenisey 1904

© Ivan Gogin, 2014