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ZHITOMIR monitors (1920 - 1921 / 1939)


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Zhitomir

Ships


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


Technical data


Displacement standard, t110
Displacement full, t130
Length, m

34.5

Breadth, m

5.10

Draught, m0.65
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, mmbelt: 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

Complement44


Standard scale images


<i>Bobruysk</i> 1939
Bobruysk 1939


Graphics


<i>Zhitomir</i>
Zhitomir


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.