BURAN guard ship (1937 / 1946)

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Буран [Buran] (ex-F7)		498	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany	1.1935	25.5.1935	2.1937 // 1.1946	test ship 12.1946

Displacement standard, t	712
Displacement full, t	1028
Length, m	73.5 wl 76.0 oa
Breadth, m	8.80
Draught, m	2.59 normal, 3.24 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Blohm & Voss geared steam turbines, 2 Velox-Benson boilers
Power, h. p.	14000
Max speed, kts	28
Fuel, t	oil 216
Endurance, nm(kts)	1500(20)
Armament	2 x 1 - 105/45 SK C/32, 2 x 2 - 37/83 SK C/30, 4 x 1 - 20/65 C/30, 4 DCR (36), 50 - 62 mines
Electronic equipment	presumably GHG hydrophone
Complement	121

German escort of F class, converted in 1940 to torpedo recovery vessel and transferred as war reparation.

None.

No significant events.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.