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MINE WARFARE SHIPS

KAPSYUL minesweepers

Kapsyul 1916

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Ùèò <Shchit>   Russo-Baltic Wks, Reval 4/1915 1916 6/1916 sunk 19/12/1916
Êðàìáîë <Krambol>, 3/1923- 1 Ìàÿ <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
Êàïñþëü <Kapsyul>   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
Ãðóç <Gruz>   Putilov Yd, Petrograd 4/1915 1916 4/1916 captured by Finland 4/1918 (MP11), returned 9/1922, TS 5/1926, stricken 9/1936

 

 

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

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 - 75/50 Canet, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94, sweeps

Complement

38

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

Modernizations: 1936, Kapsyul: - sweeps.

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.

 

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