NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Щит [Shchit]			Russo-Baltic Wks, Reval	4.1915	1916	6.1916	sunk 19.12.1916
Крамбол [Krambol], 3.1923- 1 Мая [1 Maya]			Russo-Baltic Wks, Reval	3.1915	20.3.1916	6.1916	captured by Finland 4.1918 (MP7), returned 9.1922, stricken 8.1925
Капсюль [Kapsiul']			Putilov Yd, Petrograd	4.1915	1916	4.1916	captured by Finland 4.1918 (MP12), returned 9.1922, TS 1925, board guard ship 6.1936, stricken 9.1936
Груз [Gruz]			Putilov Yd, Petrograd	4.1915	1916	4.1916	captured by Finland 4.1918 (MP11), returned 9.1922, TS 5.1926, stricken 9.1936

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	200
Displacement full, t	Shchit, Krambol: 248 Kapsyul, Gruz: 271
Length, m	53.0
Breadth, m	6.60
Draught, m	Shchit, Krambol: 0.99 Kapsyul, Gruz: 1.20
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	650
Max speed, kts	9
Fuel, t	coal 40
Endurance, nm(kts)	450(6)
Armament	1 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	38

Standard scale images

Project history

Built in Revel and Petrograd, design was created on the basis of gunboat Buriat hull. As a whole they appeared unsuccessful and never reached designed speed (11kts).

Modernizations

1936, Kapsiul: - minesweeping gear.

Naval service

 Shchit was lost 19.12.1916 on a mine. Remaining ships in 1918 were captured by Finland, in 1922 returned to Russia and BU in 1930s.