Buryat 1914
Mongol 1941
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Бурят [Buryat] | Sormovo, Nizhniy Novgorod // Kokuy | 1905 | spring 1907 | 9.1907 | captured by Japan 7.9.1918, returned 5.1925, stricken 3.1958 | ||
| Монгол [Mongol] | Sormovo, Nizhniy Novgorod // Kokuy | 1905 | spring 1907 | 9.1907 | captured by Japan 7.9.1918, returned 5.1925, stricken 2.1948 | ||
| Орочанин [Orochanin] | Sormovo, Nizhniy Novgorod // Kokuy | 1905 | spring 1907 | 9.1907 | scuttled 18.9.1918 |
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Displacement normal, t |
193 |
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Displacement full, t |
288 |
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Length, m |
54.5 |
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Breadth, m |
8.23 |
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Draught, m |
0.91 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 VTE, 2 locomotive boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
480 |
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Max speed, kts |
11.5 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 45 + oil 36 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 1000(8) |
| Armour, mm | belt: 12, deck: 5, CT: 8 |
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Armament |
2 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94 |
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Complement |
40 |
Project history: Purpose built for service on Amur and its runs. Shallow-draught, armoured gunboats, had outdated locomotive boilers.
Ship protection: Bulletproof protection.
Modernizations: 1912, all: + 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss
1929, Buryat; 1932, Mongol: - 2 x 1 - 75/48, 2 x 1 - 47/40; + 2 x 1 - 76/38 obr.1902/30, 8 x 1 - 7.6/94
1936, Buryat; 1937, Mongol: - 3 x 1 - 7.6/94; + 2 x 1 - 45/43 21K.
1945, Buryat: - 2 x 1 - 45/43; + 2 x 1 - 37/63 70K, 2 x 1 - 12.7/79
Naval service: With the beginning of WWI all were disarmed and mothballed. In 1918 Buryat and Mongol were captured by Japanese and withdrawn to Sakhalin. They were returned to the USSR in mid-1920s. Orochanin was blown up by crew in upper part of river Zeya. She was never repaired and broken up in 1923.
Orochanin 1907
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