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GILYAK gunboat (1899)

Gilyak 1904

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Ãèëÿê [Gilyak]     New Admiralty, St. Petersburg 5.1896 5.10.1897 6.1899 sunk 8.12.1904

 

Displacement normal, t

963

Displacement full, t

1251

Length, m

63.1

Breadth, m

11.1

Draught, m

3.30 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 6 Belleville boilers

Power, h. p.

1000

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

coal 70

Endurance, nm(kts)

 
Armour, mm steel; deck: 13

Armament

1 x 1 - 120/43 Canet, 5 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 2 x 1 - 63/17 Baranovski, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 1 - 450 TT (bow)

Complement

170

Project history: Large river gunboat built specially for Chinese rivers.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: 8.12.1904 Gilyak was sunk in Port Arthur harbour on shallow water by Japanese field guns and at night on 2.1.1905 she was additionally blown up by own crew. Later the wreck was salvaged by Japanese.

Gilyak

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