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Generał Haller

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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Generał Haller (ex-Turunmaa, ex-Водорез [Vodorez])			Crichton-Vulkan, Aabo, Russia/Finland	1916		5.1921	sunk 6.9.1939
Komendant Piłsudski (ex-Karjala, ex-Лунь [Lun])			Crichton-Vulkan, Aabo, Russia/Finland	1916	24.1.1917	1921	scuttled 30.9.1939

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	342
Displacement full, t	441
Length, m	50.1
Breadth, m	6.80
Draught, m	2.30
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 boilers
Power, h. p.	1150
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	coal 70
Endurance, nm(kts)	700(15)
Armament	6 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 7.9/92
Complement	49

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Project history

Former patrols of Vodorez class, built for Imperial Russian Navy (5 ships in the class), after revolution in 1917 incomplete hulls were captured by Finnish troops and completed for Finnish Navy as Turunmaa (ex-Vodorez) and Karjala (ex-Lun). In 1921 they were bought by Poland.

Modernizations

1925, both: - 4 x 1 - 47/40; + 2 x 1 - 75/35 M1915-18

1938, both: - 2 x 1 - 47/40; + 1 x 2 - 13.2/76, 2 x 1 - 7.9/92

Naval service

Generał Haller was sunk 6.9.1939 at Hel naval base by German aircraft.

Komendant Piłsudski was scuttled by crew 30.9.1939 at Hel naval base. She was salvaged by Germans and commissioned by them as Heisternest. In 1943 she was renamed M3109 and 16.9.1944 sunk at Nantes by Allied aircraft.