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IMPERIAL RUSSIAN NAVY (RUSSIA)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

No 1 minelaying boats (1913-1914)

similar M.1 1914

Names

¹1, 9.1914- A

¹2, 9.1914- Á [B], 1.1921- T-1

¹3, 9.1914- Â [V]

¹4, 9.1914- E, 1.1921- T-5

¹5, 9.1914- Ä [D], 1.1921- T-2

Builders

Sevastopol Port Wks: ¹1-5

Completed

1914: ¹1-5

1/1921: T-1 (2nd time), T-5 (2nd time), T-2 (2nd time)

Losses

A (1.5.1918), B (1.5.1918), V (1.5.1918), E (1.5.1918), D (1.5.1918)

T-2 (3/1922)

Transfers

none

Discarding

8/1921: T-1 (2nd time), T-5 (2nd time)

 

 

Displacement normal, t

39

Displacement full, t

45

Length, m

20.1

Breadth, m

5.40

Draught, m

0.90

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Bolinder semi-diesels

Power, h. p.

60

Max speed, kts

7.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil 2.2

Endurance, nm(kts) 710(5)

Armament

1 x 1 - 7.6/94, 25 mines

Complement 7

Project history: Boats were used as coastal minelayers and minesweepers.

Modernizations: 1921, T-1, 2, 5: were armed with 1 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 1 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, mechanical minesweeping gear

Naval service: All were seized by Germans at Sevastopol, re-sized by British-French troops and transferred to Whites in 1919. Later three boats returned to Red Fleet as minesweepers.

© Ivan Gogin, 2014