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SOVIET NAVY (USSR)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

Ya-5 type minesweeping boats (1939/1942, 1943-1944)

Ya-1 1942

Names

Navy boats:

ÊÝÌÒÙ-581 - 584 [KEMTShch-581 - 584]

ÊÝÌÒÙ-586 - 593 [KEMTShch-586 - 593]

¹164 - 169 [No164 - 169], 8.1943- ÐÒÙ-164 - 169 [RTShch-164 - 169], 10.1943- ß-14 - 19 [Ya-14 - 19], 1.1945- MK-14 - 19

¹6679 [No6679], 6.1944- ÊÝÌÒÙ-662 [KEMTShch-662]

Auxiliary Navy boats, reclassified as combat:

ÓÃ-1 [UG-1], 4.1945- KT-631

ÓÃ-2 [UG-2], 4.1945- KT-632

Builders

345 Yd, Yaroslavl: KEMTShch-581-584, 586-593, No164-169, 6679, UG-1, 2

Completed

1939 // 1942: No6679, UG-1, 2

1943: No164 - 169

1944: KEMTShch-581 - 584, 586 - 593

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

late 1940s: all

 

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

23

Length, m

18.7

Breadth, m

3.60

Draught, m

1.00

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 M-17 diesel or Chrysler petrol engine

Power, h. p.

65 or 93

Max speed, kts

9 or 10

Fuel, t

diesel oil or petrol 4

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

KEMTShch-581-584, 586-593: 1 x 1 - 7.6/94, magnetic minesweeping gear

No164-169, 6679: 1 x 1 - 7.6/94, mechanical minesweeping gear

UG-1, 2: 1 x 1 - 7.6/94

Complement 10

Project history: Built as runabouts, sometimes are mentioned as Yaroslavets type. Steel-hulled, equipped with a tractor diesel or automobile motor (latter variant is known as Ya-5M type). There were minesweeper variants (KATShch) or mortar boat (MK).

Modernizations: 1943, Ya-14 - 19: - 1 x 1 - 7.6/94, minesweeping gear; + 2 x 1 - 12.7/79, 1 x 24 - 82 M-8 RL

1945, KT-631, 632: + mechanical minesweeping gear

Naval service: No significant events.

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