NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
ПСК-301 Жемчуг [PSK-301 Zhemchug]		27	190 Yd, Leningrad	6.1934	11.1935	12.1937	to Navy 6.1941, sunk 11.8.1943
ПСК-302 Рубин [PSK-302 Rubin], 3.1955- Кушум [Kushum]		28	190 Yd, Leningrad	11.1934	18.8.1935	12.1936	to Navy 6.1941, Border Guard 1946, to Navy as dispatch vessel 3.1955, stricken 6.1960
ПСК-303 Бриллиант [PSK-303 Brilliant]		29	190 Yd, Leningrad	10.1934	5.11.1935	6.1937	to Navy 6.1941, sunk 23.9.1944
ПСК-304 Сапфир [PSK-304 Sapfir], 3.1955- Визим [Vizim]		30	190 Yd, Leningrad	12.1934	20.12.1935	12.1937	to Navy 6.1941, Border Guard 1946, to Navy as dispatch vessel 3.1955, stricken 2.1959

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	424
Displacement full, t	580
Length, m	62.0
Breadth, m	7.20
Draught, m	3.00
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 diesels
Power, h. p.	2200
Max speed, kts	17.2
Fuel, t	diesel oil 75
Endurance, nm(kts)	3500(13)
Armament	1 x 1 - 102/60, 2 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 2 x 1 - 12.7/79, 2 DCT (20), 31 mines
Complement	61

Standard scale images

Project history

Guard ships on the basis of Fugas class minesweeper.    

Modernizations

1942, all: + 1 x 1 - 37/63 70K.

1943 - 1944, all survived: - 2 x 1 - 45/43; + 2 x 1 - 37/63 70K, 4 x 1 - 12.7/79

late 1940s, all survived: + radar

Naval service

Zhemchug 11.8.1941 was torpedoed by German submarine U451 at Cape Kanin Nos. Brilliant 12.5.1942 was sunk by German aircraft at Iokanga; raised 25.9.1942, repaired and in June, 1944 commissioned again; 23.9.1944 she was sunk by German submarine U957 in Kara Sea.

Rubin and Sapfir after war were returned to Border Guard, but in March, 1955 transferred to the Navy and 31.5.1955 renamed Kushum andVizim respectively. They were stricken in 1959-1960.