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VIATKA netlayers (project 149) (1941-1944)

 

Vyatka 1941

 

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Вятка [Viatka]     264 Yd, Krasnoarmeysk (near Stalingrad) 5.1939 26.5.1940 7.1941 stricken 1960s
Онега [Onega]     264 Yd, Krasnoarmeysk (near Stalingrad) 1938 1940 7.1941 stricken 1960s
Исеть [Iset']     264 Yd, Krasnoarmeysk (near Stalingrad) 1939 1940 1941 communication ship 1942
Тура [Tura]     264 Yd, Krasnoarmeysk (near Stalingrad) 8.1939 26.6.1940 9.1941 // --- completed as depot ship
Молога [Mologa]     264 Yd, Krasnoarmeysk (near Stalingrad) // 368 Yd, Khabarovsk 7.1941 1.8.1944 9.1944 stricken 1960s
Сухона [Sukhona]     264 Yd, Krasnoarmeysk (near Stalingrad) // 368 Yd, Khabarovsk 8.1941 early 1944 12.1944 stricken 1960s

 

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

527

Length, m

56.8

Breadth, m

9.80

Draught, m

1.70

No of shafts

3

Machinery

2 4SD-19/32 diesels + 1 2SD-20/30 diesel

Power, h. p.

280 + 50 = 330

Max speed, kts

8.3

Fuel, t

diesel oil 14

Endurance, nm(kts) 1280(4.5)

Armament

Vyatka, Onega: 3 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 2 x 1 - 12.7/79, 50 mines, nets

Mologa, Sukhona: 3 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 1 x 4 - 12.7/62, 50 mines, nets

Iset: 3 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 2 x 1 - 12.7/79

Tura: 1 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 2 x 1 - 12.7/79

Complement

54

Project history: Shallow-draught netlayers, capable to carry up to 50 obr.1926 or 40 KB mines and also minesweeping equipment. They were equipped by two 140hp diesels on side-shafts and one 50hp diesel on central shaft.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Iset was in 1942 re-classified as communication ship. Tura 8.9.1941 was commissioned as depot and command ship, in 1944 she received 1 triple 450mm TT and used for torpedo tests.

Onega

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