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AMETIST guard ship (1916 / 1940)


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Ametist Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Аметист [Ametist] (ex-Sulev, ex-A32)   965 Schichau, Elbing, Germany early 1916 15.7.1916 10.1916 // 8.1940 to Board Guard 10.1940, guard ship 6.1941, to Board Guard 6.1945, disarmed 1950


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

227

Displacement full, t

250

Length, m

49.0 wl 50.0 oa

Breadth, m

5.32

Draught, m

2.12 normal 2.34 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 set Schichau geared steam turbine, 1 Marine doubled boiler

Power, h. p.

3250

Max speed, kts

25

Fuel, t

oil 53

Endurance, nm(kts)600(12)
Armament

3 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 3 x 1 - 12.7/79, 2 DCR (16)

Complement

46



Standard scale images


<i>A32</i> 1918
A32 1918


Graphics


<i> Ametist</i> <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
Ametist Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.


Project history

Former German torpedo boat A32. 7.11.1917 she ran aground during a storm on island Saaremaa in Gulf of Riga. In October, 1923 she was raised by Estonian wreckers and in August, 1924 commissioned by Estonian Navy as Sulev. With occurrence of Estonia in the USSR, 6.8.1940 she was commissioned by Baltic Fleet, but 17.10.1940 rearmed and transferred to Board Guard as Ametist.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

11.7.1942 Ametist was hard damaged as result of beaching and was never completely repaired; 4.7.1945 she was converted to TS, in 1950 disarmed and broken up in 1955.



Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.