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MINREP port vessels (1911 - 1912)


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Vzryv

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Минреп [Minrep]     Izhora Wks, St. Petersburg 12.1909 30.3.1911 12.1911 captured by Finland 4.1918
Взрыв [Vzryv]     Izhora Wks, St. Petersburg 12.1909 19.4.1911 12.1911 sunk 28.5.1916
Запал [Zapal]     Izhora Wks, St. Petersburg 1910 12.1911 7.1912 survey vessel 2.1948
Проводник [Provodnik]     Izhora Wks, St. Petersburg 1910 12.1911 12.1912 sunk 27.8.1914
Фугас [Fugas]     Izhora Wks, St. Petersburg 1910 12.1911 12.1912 sunk 5.12.1916


Technical data


Displacement normal, t137
Displacement full, t150
Length, m

45.0

Breadth, m

6.10

Draught, m

1.90

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VDE, 2 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

280

Max speed, kts

11

Fuel, t

coal 13

Endurance, nm(kts)570(9)
Armament

1 x 1 - 57/50 Hotchkiss, 1 x 1 - 7.6/94, mechanical minesweeping gear, 50 mines

Complement30


Standard scale images


<i>Minrep</i> 1914
Minrep 1914


Graphics


<i>Vzryv</i>
Vzryv


Project history

First-ever rigorous purpose-built minesweepers.

Modernizations

1932, Zapal: - 1 x 1 - 57/50; + 1 x 1 - 76/28 8K, 1 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 1 x 1 - 7.6/94, mine capacity decreased to 32. Displacement was 150 / 205t, draught was 2.5m, speed 11.5kts at 300hp, complement 37.

Naval service

Three ships were lost on mines (Provodnik 27.8.1914, Vzryv 28.5.1916 on own mine, Fugas 5.12.1916). Minrep in April, 1918 was captured by Finnish troops. Zapal served in the Soviet Navy, in days of Great Patriotic War she was under repair and has been handed over on demolition only in 1964.