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MARTI minelayer (1896/1936)

 

Marti 1936

 

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Марти [Marti] (ex-Штандарт [Shtandart]), 1948- Ока [Oka]   183 Burmeister og Wain, Copenhagen, Denmark // 194 Yd, Leningrad 13.10.1893 10.3.1895 1896 // 29.11.1936 accommodation ship early 1950s

 

 

Displacement standard, t

5655

Displacement full, t

6189

Length, m

122.3

Breadth, m

15.4

Draught, m

6.97

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 4 boilers

Power, h. p.

11426

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

oil 930

Endurance, nm(kts) 2260(12)

Armament

4 x 1 - 130/53, 7 x 1 - 76/52 34K, 3 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 4 x 1 - 7.6/94, 390 mines

Complement 390

Project history: Laid down as auxiliary cruiser, completed as emperor`s yacht Shtandart. In 1933 ship was converted to minelayer on yard No194; 18.8.1934 renamed Marti and 29.11.1936 commissioned by Baltic Fleet. Ship differed by strong artillery at slow speed; often in western literature she was classified as a cruiser-minelayer.

Modernizations: 1943: - 4 x 1 - 7.6/94; + 3 x 1 - 12.7/79.

Naval service: Oka in early fifties was converted to barrack ship.

Oka

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