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WARSZAWA river monitors (1920)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Horodyszcze     Danziger Werft, Germany 1920 1920 8.1920 scuttled 18.9.1939
Pińsk     Danziger Werft, Germany 1920 1920 10.1920 scuttled 18.9.1939
Mozyrz, 6.1923- Toruń     Danziger Werft, Germany 1920 1920 12.1920 scuttled 18.9.1939
Warszawa     Danziger Werft, Germany 1920 1920 8.1920 scuttled 18.9.1939


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

110

Displacement full, t

126

Length, m

34.5 pp 34.7 oa

Breadth, m

5.10

Draught, m

0.80

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Maybach 4-cyl diesels

Power, h. p.

180

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Armour, mmbelt: 6 - 5, turrets: 10, deck: 10
Armament

2 x 1 - 105/42 K17, 5 x 1 - 7.9/92

Complement

49



Standard scale images


<i>Warszawa</i> 1939
Warszawa 1939
<i>Warszawa</i> 1920
Warszawa 1920


Project history

River monitors.

Modernizations

late 1920s, all: - 2 x 1 - 105/42, 1 x 1 - 7.9/92; + 1 x 1 - 100/19 vz.14/19 how, 1 x 2 - 75/36 vz.1897/17

1936, Toruń; 1938, Warszawa; 1938-39, Pińsk; 1939, Horodyszcze: draught was reduced and silhouette lowered, 3 Maybach diesels were replaced by 2 Glennifer (200hp, 8.6kts); - 1 x 1 - 100/19; + 1 x 1 - 75/36 vz.1897/17

Naval service

Horodyszcze, Pińsk, Toruń and Warszawa were scuttled by crews 18.9.1939 on river Pripyat. They were salvaged by Soviet troops in September-October, 1939 and commissioned by Soviet Navy as Bobruisk, Zhitomir, Vinnitsa and Vitebsk respectively.