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MR491 river floating batteries (1916/1918)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
MR491 (ex-№... [No...]) 1   Russud, Nikolayev 1916 1916 1916 // 2-3/1918 sunk 25.6.1941
MR492 (ex-№... [No...]) 2   Russud, Nikolayev 1916 1916 1916 // 2-3/1918 captured by USSR 24.8.1944
MR493 (ex-№... [No...]) 3   Russud, Nikolayev 1916 1916 1916 // 2-3/1918 captured by USSR 24.8.1944
MR494 (ex-№... [No...]) 4   Russud, Nikolayev 1916 1916 1916 // 2-3/1918 captured by USSR 24.8.1944
MR495 (ex-№... [No...]) 5   Russud, Nikolayev 1916 1916 1916 // 2-3/1918 captured by USSR 24.8.1944
MR496 (ex-№... [No...]) 6   Russud, Nikolayev 1916 1916 1916 // 2-3/1918 captured by USSR 24.8.1944


Technical data


Displacement normal, t255
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

54.7
Breadth, m

7.10
Draught, m

1.20
No of shafts

2
Machinery

2 Bolinder semi-diesels
Power, h. p.

100
Max speed, kts

5.5
Fuel, toil
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

MR491 - 493: 2 x 1 - 120/44 Canet

MR494 - 496: 1 x 1 - 152/44 Canet
Complement?


Project history

Former river gunboats of K class of Russian Danube flotilia, captured by Romanians on Danube during disorder of Russian front in February-March, 1918. Apparently, they were former landing barges of Bolinder type built at Nikolaev. In Romanian Navy they had Numbers 1-6 too.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

MR491 was sunk by Soviet aircraft 25.6.1941, remaining five barges were captured by Soviet troops in Danube delta 24.8.1944.