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EMTShch-70 minesweepers

EMTShch-70 1944

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
ÝÌÒÙ-70 <EMTShch-70> (ex-No761 Viipuri)   Crighton-Vulcan, Turku, Finland 1941 1941 6/1941 // 11/1944 tug 11/1950
ÝÌÒÙ-71 <EMTShch-71> (ex-No762)   Crighton-Vulcan, Turku, Finland 1941 1941 6/1941 // 11/1944 tug 11/1946
ÝÌÒÙ-72 <EMTShch-72> (ex-No763)   Crighton-Vulcan, Turku, Finland 1941 1941 6/1941 // 11/1944 tug 11/1950
ÝÌÒÙ-73 <EMTShch-73> (ex-No764)   Crighton-Vulcan, Turku, Finland 1941 1941 6/1941 // 11/1944 tug 11/1946

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

335

Length, m

31.6

Breadth, m

7.50

Draught, m

4.00

No of shafts

1

Machinery

VTE?

Power, h. p.

368

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

?

Armament

2 x 1 - 45/46 21K, 2 x 1 - 12.7/79, sweeps

Complement

?

Ship project history: The tugs built in Finland under Soviet order. In June, 1941 they passed commissioning trials. All were confiscated by Finnish Government and commissioned by Finnish Navy under factory numbers No761-764 (first ship received thus name Viipuri). 3/11/1944 they were received by Soviet crews and commissioned as EMTShch-70-73.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: In 1946-1950 all were converted to tugs.

Viipuri

 

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