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KRAKÓW river monitors

Kraków 1939

Names

Kraków; Wilno

Builders

Zieleniewskiego Yd, Krakow, Poland

Completed

1926

Losses

Kraków (21/9/1939), Wilno (19/9/1939)

Transfers

none

Discarding

none

  

Displacement standard, t

70

Displacement full, t

90

Length, m

35.0

Breadth, m

6.10

Draught, m

0.39

No of shafts

2 in tunnels

Machinery

Perkun-Kromhout diesels

Power, h. p.

140

Max speed, kts

7.3

Fuel, t

diesel oil 3.5

Armour, mm belt: 6, turrets: 8 - 5, deck: 5, CT: 8 - 5

Armament

1 x 1 - 100/19 vz.14/19 how, 1 x 2 - 75/36 vz.1897/17, 4 x 1 - 7.9/92, mines

Complement

29

Ship project history: Ordered 31/12/1923. First ships projected and built in Poland.

Modernizations: 1932, both: - 1 x 1 - 100/19 vz.14/19, 1 x 2 - 75/36 vz.1897/17; + 1 x 2 - 100/25 vz.30 how, 1 x 1 - 100/25 vz.30 how

late 1930s, both: - 4 x 1 - 7.9/92; + 2 x 2 - 13.2/76

Naval service: Wilno was scuttled by crew 19/9/1939 near Osowitze.

Kraków was scuttled by crew 21/9/1939 on river Pna. In the same month she was salvaged by Soviet troops and commissioned by Siviet Navy 24/10/1939 as Smolensk.

 

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