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KRAKÓW river monitors (1926)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

Kraków

Wilno

Zieleniewskiego Yd, Krakow, Poland: Kraków, Wilno

1926: Kraków, Wilno

Kraków (21.9.1939), Wilno (19.9.1939)

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Technical data


Displacement standard, t

70

Displacement full, t

90

Length, m

35.0

Breadth, m

6.10

Draught, m

0.39

No of shafts

2 in tunnels

Machinery

2 Perkun-Kromhout diesels

Power, h. p.

140

Max speed, kts

7.3

Fuel, t

diesel oil 3.5

Armour, mmbelt: 6, turrets: 8 - 5, deck: 5, CT: 8 - 5
Armament

1 x 1 - 100/19 vz.14/19 how, 1 x 2 - 75/35 vz.1897/17, 4 x 1 - 7.9/92, mines

Complement

29



Standard scale images


<i>Kraków</i> 1939
Kraków 1939


Project history

Ordered 31.12.1923. First ships projected and built in Poland.

Modernizations

1932, both: - 1 x 1 - 100/19 vz.14/19, 1 x 2 - 75/36 vz.1897/17; + 1 x 2 - 100/25 vz.30 how, 1 x 1 - 100/25 vz.30 how

late 1930s, both: - 4 x 1 - 7.9/92; + 2 x 2 - 13.2/76

Naval service

Wilno was scuttled by crew 19.9.1939 near Osowitze.

Kraków was scuttled by crew 21.9.1939 on river Pna. In the same month she was salvaged by Soviet troops and commissioned by Siviet Navy 24.10.1939 as Smolensk.