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ISKRA minesweepers

Iskra 1914

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Искра <Iskra>   Smiths Dock, South Bank, UK 12/1912 3/9/1913 2/1914 sunk 6/10/1916
Пламя <Plamya>, 8/1933- T-33, 11/1939- T-891 17 Smiths Dock, South Bank, UK 12/1912 17/9/1913 2/1914 captured by Finland 4/1918, returned 9/1922, board guard ship 10/1922, stricken 4/1924, minesweeper 8/1933, stricken 4/1947
Патрон <Patron>, 8/1933- T-31, 11/1939- T-890 18 Smiths Dock, South Bank, UK 12/1912 17/9/1913 2/1914 guard ship 8/1918, stricken 5/1921, minesweeper 8/1933, sunk 9/7/1941

 

 

Displacement normal, t

420

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

44.5

Breadth, m

7.47

Draught, m

3.28

No of shafts

1

Machinery

VTE, 1 water-tube boiler

Power, h. p.

650

Max speed, kts

11.6

Fuel, t

coal 100

Endurance, nm(kts) 1400(9.5)

Armament

2 x 1 - 75/50 Canet, sweeps, 45 mines

Complement 49

Ship project history: Built on the basis of trawler project. Intended for Siberian Flotilla, but because of beginning of war remained on Baltic.

Modernizations: 1933, T-31, 33: were armed with 1 x 1 - 76/30 8K, 1 x 1 - 45/46 21K, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94, sweeps

1943, T-891: - 1 x 1 - 76/30, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94; + 1 x 1 - 37/73 70K, 2 x 1 - 12.7/79

Naval service: Iskra was lost 6/10/1916 on a mine, remaining two in  In 1923-1924 they were disarmed, converted to trawlers and renamed RT-33 Nalim and RT-35 Forel. 9/8/1933 they were again converted to minesweepers and commissioned by Northern Fleet as T-31 and 33 respectively.
   T-890 was sunk 9/7/1941 by German aircraft in Zapadnaya Litsa Bay.

Patron 1914

 

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