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VOLGA minelayer

 

Volga 1909

 

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Волга <Volga>, 12/1922- 9 Января <9 Yanvarya>   New Admiralty, St. Petersburg 6/1903 10/9/1904 3/1909 TS 10/1922, depot ship 12/1938

 

 

Displacement normal, t

1711

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

70.3

Breadth, m

11.9

Draught, m

4.35

No of shafts

2

Machinery

VTE, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers

Power, h. p.

1600

Max speed, kts

13.5

Fuel, t

coal 160

Endurance, nm(kts) 1800(9)

Armament

4 x 1 - 47/43 Hotchkiss, 230 mines

Complement 219

Ship project history: Built as mine transport, in a peace time it was supposed to use  Volga as lighthouse tender and pilot ship. Ship possessed bad seaworthiness and a low stability.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Since 1938 she was used as depot hulk, in 1944 transferred to mercantile service. Wreck was preserved to this day in port of St. Petersburg.

Volga 1910

 

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