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Ships

Name	Launched // Comm.	Builder	Tonnage, BRT or Disp., t	Dimensions, m	Speed, kts	Engine, Power hp	Armament	Fate
Ярославна [Yaroslavna] (ex-Lizystrada), 2.1924- Воровский [Vorovskiy]	1901 // 12.1916	Denny, Dumbarton, UK	2100 / 2300	97.2x12.2x5.5	12	4boilers, 2VTE, 7000, coal 530	2 - 102/60, 4 x 1 - 45/43, 2 x 1 - 12.7 complement 140	captured by Whites 8.1918, re-commissioned by Reds as AMC 4.1920, dispatch vessel 3.1921, border guard ship 11.1922, dispatch vessel 11.1923, guard ship 1.1924, border guard ship 4.1931, wrecked 23.9.1952

100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels

Пурга [Purga] (ex-Боривой [Borivoy]) (1916, 950, 1930 - ../../1930s); Уран [Uran] (ex-Varonis) (1908, 247, 8.1940 - early 1950s)

Project history

Vorovskiy was built as yacht Lysistrata for American private owner. Designed speed was 17.5kts, on trials ship reached 18.93kts. In 1916 she was bought by Russian Government as dispatch vessel for Northern Flotilla, armed and renamed Yaroslavna.     In 1920 she was repaired, re-armed and re-rated as Border Guard ship, renamed Vorovskiy and commissioned by Border Guard on Northern Ocean; in 1924 ship passed to the Far East. By the time of WWII she made no more than 10-12kts.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Vorovskiy 23.9.1952 ran aground in the Avacha Bay, raised and towed off on repair to Vladivostok, but never repaired and subsequently broken up.