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Layne

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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Спутник [Sputnik], 8.1940- Лайне [Layne], 7.1941- №49 [No49], 12.1941- Лайне [Layne], 2.1942- Гангутец [Gangutets]			Crichton, St. Petersburg // Kronshtadt Port Wks	1912	24.7.1912	1913	dispatch vessel 3.1915, captured by Germany 4.1918 (Lauterbach, later Estonian Laine), re-commissioned as dispatch vessel 8.1940, minesweeper 7.1941, guard ship 12.1941, survey vessel 11.1945
Конвоир [Konvoir]			Crichton, St. Petersburg // Kronshtadt Port Wks	1912	19.7.1912	1913	collision 3.11.1917

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	211
Displacement full, t
Length, m	37.0
Breadth, m	6.10
Draught, m	1.80
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 1 boiler
Power, h. p.	500
Max speed, kts	12
Fuel, t	coal 80
Endurance, nm(kts)	950(8)
Armament	2 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss
Complement	20

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Project history

Former escorts of submarines.

Modernizations

1917, both: - 2 x 1 - 57/40, 2 x 1 - 37/20; + 2 x 1 - 76/28 Lender

1940, Layne: was armed with 1 x 1 - 76/28 8K, 2 x 1 - 45/43 21K

1941, No49: + mechanical minesweeping gear

1941, Layne: - minesweeping gear

1943 - 1944, Gangutets: + 1 x 2 - 12.7/90, 3 x 1 - 12.7/79

Naval service

Konvoir was lost 2.11.1917 in result of collision. Sputnik 7.4.1918 was captured at Abo (Turku) by German AMC Möwe and converted to tender Lauterbach. 13.11.1918 she was transferred to Estonia as Laine: the first ship of Estonian Navy, used as patrol, gunboat and submarine depot ship.

With occurrence of Estonia in structure of the USSR Laine 6.8.1940 entered Baltic Fleet as guard shipLayne. 5.11.1945 she was disarmed and converted to survey vessel, 29.10.1953 stricken and BU 3.1.1954.