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DON minelayer (1941/1944)

Don 1944

 

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Дон [Don] (ex-Amiral Murgesku)     Santieri Galati, Galats, Romania 8.1938 14.6.1939 5.1941 // 9.1944 TS 4.1945, depot ship 1.1947

 

 

Displacement standard, t

812

Displacement full, t

~950

Length, m

76.9

Breadth, m

9.10

Draught, m

2.50

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Krupp-Germania diesels

Power, h. p.

2200

Max speed, kts

16

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

3400(13)

Armament

2 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 2 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk IV, 2 x 1 - 13.2/79, 135 mines, 2 DCT

Complement

105

Project history: Former Romanian minelayer Amiral Murgescu, 5.9.1944 captured by Soviet troops at Constanza and 14.9.1944 commissioned by Soviet Navy as Don.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: 2.4.1945 Don was converted to TS, 18.1.1947 to depot ship, 9.2.1948 to command ship; 7.5.1956 she was disarmed and converted to barrack ship PKZ-107, 4.1.1958 to repair vessel PM-76, since 8.6.1966 PMR-76. She was excluded from fleet list 27.5.1988, sold for scrap 4.7.1988.

Don 1945

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