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ABO torpedo boats (1886)


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Abo

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Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

Або [Abo] (ex-№8 [No8]), 4.1895- №108 [No108], 1.1910- Илим [Ilim]

Виндава [Vindava] (ex-№9 [No9), 4.1895- №109 [No109]

Либава [Libava] (ex-№10 [No10]), 4.1895- №110 [No110]

Schichau, Elbing, Germany: Abo, Vindava, Libava

1886: Abo, Vindava, Libava

none

none

1909: No109, 110

2/1925: Ilim



Technical data


Displacement normal, t

76

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

38.5

Breadth, m

4.52

Draught, m

1.90

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VC, 1 locomotive boiler

Power, h. p.

640

Max speed, kts

19.3 - 20

Fuel, t

coal 18

Endurance, nm(kts)1000(10)
Armament

4 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 2 - 381 TT (bow, 6)

Complement

21



Standard scale images


<i>Abo</i> 1886
Abo 1886


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<i>Abo</i>
Abo


Project history

Boats had three masts, fore and aft CTs and two rudders.

Modernizations

1909, Ilim: - 2 x 5 - 37/17, 2 - 381 TT; + 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss

Naval service

No108 was reclassified as harbour craft in October 1909 but returned to battle order as dispatch vessel in May 1915. She was reclassified as gunboat in February 1919, again as dispatch vessel in November and as guard ship in February 1923.