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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Meteor		101	KW Danzig / RMW Wilhelmshaven	1914	18.1.1915	11.1924	surrendered 5.1945, to Soviet Union 12.1945

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1200
Displacement full, t	1504
Length, m	67.0 wl 71.1 oa
Breadth, m	10.2
Draught, m	3.60 normal 4.00 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	885
Max speed, kts	11.5
Fuel, t	coal 440
Endurance, nm(kts)	3650(10)
Armament	since 1930: 1 x 1 - 88/42 SK C/13
Complement	124

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Project history

Order for building of gunboat "C" was given out in 1913 and repeated in 1923. Originally planned as enlarged Iltis class, design of 1914 provided 4 105mm/45 guns and more powerful machinery with 4 boilers. Brigantine-rigged, sails area was 463 m2.

Modernizations

1930: sailing rig was removed

1934: VTE were replaced by 2 MAN diesels (2200hp, 14.5kts, 44t of diesel oil, 1000(9)nm)

1939-1944: + 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, FuMO 51 radar

Naval service

Vessel was used primarily for survey and fishery protection. In September, 1945, she was transferred to German Institute of Hydrography but in December that year transferred to USSR on reparation and from November, 1946 served as survey vessel Ekvator.