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LOUHI minelayer (1916/1918)


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M1

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
M1 (ex-Воин [Voin]), 1936- Louhi     Kolomna S Yd, Russia ? 1916 1916 // 4.1918 sunk 12.1.1945


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

640
Displacement full, t776
Length, m

50.0
Breadth, m

8.00
Draught, m

2.70
No of shafts

1
Machinery

1 VTE, 3 boilers
Power, h. p.

800
Max speed, kts

12
Fuel, t

coal 50
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 150 mines
Complement

46


Standard scale images


<i>Louhi</i> 1940
Louhi 1940


Graphics


<i>M1</i>
M1


Project history

Former Russian minelayer Voin. At escape of Baltic fleet from Finland she was abandoned at Helsingfors where in 1918 was captured by Finns.

Modernizations

late 1930s: + 2 x 1 - 40/39 QF Mk II, 1 x 1 - 20/60 Madsen.

Naval service

Louhi was lost 12.1.1945 off Hanko on a mine (possibly, German).