Bobruysk 1939
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
Бобруйск <Bobruysk> (ex-Horodyszcze) | Danziger Werft, Germany | 1920 | 8/1920 // 10/1939 | scuttled 31/8/1941 | |||
Винница <Vinnitsa> (ex-Torun, ex-Mozyrz) | Danziger Werft, Germany | 1920 | 4/1921 // 10/1939 | sunk 16/7/1941 | |||
Витебск <Vitebsk> (ex-Warszawa) | Danziger Werft, Germany | 1920 | 8/1920 // 10/1939 | scuttled 18/9/1941 | |||
Житомир <Zhitomir> (ex-Pinsk) | Danziger Werft, Germany | 1920 | 8/1920 // 10/1939 | sunk 7/9/1941 |
Displacement standard, t |
110 |
Displacement full, t |
130 |
Length, m |
34.5 |
Breadth, m |
5.10 |
Draught, m |
0.65 |
No of shafts |
2 |
Machinery |
2 Glennifer petrol engines |
Power, h. p. |
140 Zhitomir: 200 |
Max speed, kts |
9 |
Fuel, t |
petrol |
Endurance, nm(kts) | 648(6) |
Armour, mm | belt: 6 - 5, turrets: 10, CT: 10 |
Armament |
1 x 2 - 75/34 vz.1897/17, 1 x 1 - 75/34 vz.1897/17, 4 x 1 - 7.6/94 |
Complement |
44 |
Ship project history: Former Polish river monitors of Warszawa class. All were scuttled by crews 18/9/1939 on the river Pripyat; later salvaged by Soviet wreckers, repaired at Pinsk, rearmed and commissioned by Red Navy.
Ship protection: Only bulletproof protection.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Vinnitsa 15/7/1941 in battle against German field artillery on Berezina received damage and ran ashore off Parichi where 16/7/1941 she was destroyed by crew. Vitebsk 18/9/1941 was blown up by crew near Kiev. Bobruysk 31/8/941 was damaged in battle against German field artillery and after expending of ammunition was blown up by crew at settlement Okuninovo on Dnepr. Zhitomir 1/9/1941 ran ashore at settlement Cherni on Dnepr and was blown up by crew 7/9/1941.
Zhitomir
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