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IMPERIAL RUSSIAN NAVY / SOVIET NAVY (RUSSIA / USSR)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

CHAYKA port vessel (1911)

Chayka 1910

Names

×àéêà [Chayka]

Builders

Odessa: Chayka

Completed

1911: Chayka

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

2/1925: Chayka

 

 

Displacement normal, t

24

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

15.5

Breadth, m

3.70

Draught, m

1.22

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 petrol engine

Power, h. p.

100

Max speed, kts

9.5

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement  

Project history: Small purpose-built motor minesweeper.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Chayka was captured by Germans 1.5.1918, by Whites in November 1918, by British-French troops in December and transferred again to Whites in April 1919. She was abandoned in November 1920 and commissioned by Red navy in December.

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