Kars 1912
Krasnyy Azerbaydzhan 1944
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Карс [Kars], 5.1920- Ленин [Lenin] | New Admiralty, St. Petersburg | 12.1908 | 4.9.1909 | 12.1910 | captured by Whites 31.7.1918, re-captured 4.1920, accommodation ship 12.1954 | ||
| Ардаган [Ardagan], 5.1920- Троцкий [Trotskiy], 2.1927- Красный Азербайджан [Krasnyy Azerbaydzhan] | New Admiralty, St. Petersburg | 12.1908 | 25.9.1909 | 12.1910 | captured by Whites 31.7.1918, re-captured 4.1920, accommodation ship 12.1954 |
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Displacement normal, t |
623 |
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Displacement full, t |
635 |
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Length, m |
58.6 pp 61.6 oa |
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Breadth, m |
8.53 |
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Draught, m |
2.62 max |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 diesels |
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Power, h. p. |
1000 |
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Max speed, kts |
14 |
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Fuel, t |
diesel oil 30 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 1270(11) |
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Armament |
2 x 1 - 120/49 Vickers, 4 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 4 x 1 - 7.6/94 |
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Complement |
128 |
Project history: Purpose built gunboats intended for police service and fishery protection on Caspian sea. Projected on the basis of gunboat Gilyak construction. First-ever seaworthy surface ships with diesel machinery.
Modernizations: 6.1916, both: - 1 x 1 - 120/49, 2 x 1 - 75/48
5/1918, both: + 1 x 1 - 120/49 Vickers, 2 x 1 - 75/48 Canet
1920, both: - 2 x 1 - 120/49, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94; + 2 x 1 - 102/60, 1 x 1 - 76/28 Lender, 1 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss
1926, both: - 4 x 1 - 75/48, 1 x 1 - 37/20; + 1 x 1 - 102/60, 1 x 1 - 76/28 8K (Lender)
1937, both: engines were replaced by more powerful (2200bhp, 15kts, 50t of diesel oil); new armament consisted of 3 x 1 - 100/54 B-24BM, 2 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 2 x 1 - 12.7/79, 30 mines
1942, both: - 2 x 1 - 45/43; + 4 x 1 - 37/63 70K, 2 x 2 - 12.7/90
1944, Krasnyy Azerbaydzhan: - 2 x 2 - 12.7/79; + 2 x 1 - 37/63 70K
Naval service: 29.12.1954 both ships were converted to accommodation ships (PKZ-100 and 101 respectively) and BU in 1958-1959.
Kars and Ardagan 1911
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