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FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
RUSSIA / USSR
CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS
dispatch vessels of WWI


Ships


Name

Launched // Comm.

Builder

Tonnage, BRT or Disp., t

Dimensions, m

Speed, kts

Engine, Power hp

Armament

Fate
Зарница [Zarnitsa] (ex-Форос [Foros]) 1891 // 6.1915 UK 1086 79.2x11.4 14.7 2400 3-47/40 hulk 10.1922
Кречет [Krechet] (ex-У [U], ex-Polaris) 9.1898 // 8.1915 Hurley, Dundee, UK 2844 85.8x11.6 13.5 2600   cargo vessel 12.1926

Великий Князь Александр Михайлович [Velikiy Knyaz' Aleksandr Mikhaylovich]

 1907 // Autumn 1914 Malmö, Sweden 1482 74.2x10.6 17.5 2260 4-75/48 captured by Germany 1.5.1918
Якут [Yakut] 1887 // 1916   1300 65.7x7.2 12 1100 2-75/48 captured by Germany 1.5.1918
Принчипесса Мария [Princhipessa Mariya], 3.1918- Освобождение [Osvobozhdeniye] 1896 // 9.1916 Livorno, Italy 3000 88.0x14.5 15 4000   captured by Germany 1.5.1918
Горислава [Gorislava] (ex-Josefina) 1899 // 8.1916 USA 1650 75.6x9.0 15 3000 2-102/60 captured by British 8.1918, AMC of Red Navy 3.1920, despatch vessel 3.1921, stricken 6.1924
Единение [Yedineniye] (ex-Kipr) 1913 // 6.1917 USA 1415 77.0x8.7 16 3200   lost Autumn 1917
Колгуев [Kolguyev], 1920- Юшар [Yushar] 1915 // 7.1916 UK 2000 73.2x10.7 11 1200 4-75/48 captured by British 8.1918, re-commissioned 4.1920, transferred mercantile 5.1920
Людмила [Lyudmila] (ex-Lady Gwendolin) 1911 // 7.1916 UK 3817         unlisted 1917
Млада [Mlada] (ex-Semiramida) 1900 // 2.1917   1792   15   3-130/53 unlisted 1917
Порыв [Poryv] (ex-Vanadis) 1913 // 6.1917 USA 1233 84.4x9.7 15 3000   captured by British Summer 1918
Рассвет [Rassvet] (ex-Alberta) 1896 // 6.1917 USA 1160 76.8x10.3 14 3000   unlisted 1917
Рогдай [Rogday] (ex-Nevada) 1915 // 8.1917 USA 2122 64.4x12.9 15 1300   unlisted 1917
Ярославна [Yaroslavna] (ex-Lysistrata) 1901 // 7.1916 Denny, Dumbarton, UK 3315 96.6x12.2 18 3500 2-120/43, 2-47/40 captured by British 8.1918, commissioned again 4.1920, board guard 11.1922, stricken 1950s
Ворон [Voron] (ex-Либавский №2 [Libavskiy No2] 1896 // 7.1916 Oslo, Norway 1100 40.5x9.6x4.5 10.3 700 2 - 75/50 to Latvia 6.1922
Гриф [Grif] (ex-Bore I) // 10.1916             captured by Germany 3.4.1918
Ястреб [Yastreb] (ex-Bore-II) 1900 // 3.1916 Finland 1150 57.9x8.8x4.9 12 1124 2 - 105/45 depot ship 1.1922, dispatch vessel 7.1941 - 2.1944


100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels


Ижора [Izhora] (1913, 210, 7.1914-11/1924); Виола [Viola] (ex-Friedrich Wilhelm) (1893, 422, 8.1914-13.4.1918); Эрос [Eros] (1892, 500, 8.1915-10/1918); Колхида [Kolkhida] (ex-Tamara) (1898, 992, 3-75/48, 6.1913-1.5.1918); Днепровец [Dneprovets] (ex-Dneprovskiy Kanal) (1905, 525, 1-75/48, 1916-1.5.1918); Восход [Voskhod] (ex-Diana) (1896, 751, 6.1917-1917); Иней [Iney] (ex-Halden) (1909, 220, 12.1916-?.8.1918); Купава [Kupava] (ex-Surendalsfiord) (1915, 805, 2-76/28, 12.1916-?.8.1918); Орлик [Orlik] (ex-P. Hansen) (1914, 300, 2.1917-?.3.1918); Снежинка [Snezhinka] (ex-Teklia) (1895, 180, 8.1916-?.8.1918); Соколица [Sokolitsa] (ex-Alvina) (1895, 526, 7.1917-?.3.1918, 3.1920-12/1922); Руслан [Ruslan] (ex-Добрыня [Dobrynya]) (1914, 350, 1 - 75/50, 11.1916 - 4.1924)

Standard scale images


<i>Kolkhida </i>1914 more than 1000 BRT
Kolkhida 1914 more than 1000 BRT


Project history

Merchant vessels converted to despatch vessels during World War One.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Velikiy Knyaz' Aleksandr Mikhaylovich, Yakut and Princhipessa Mariya were captured by Germans 1.5.1918 at Sevastopol, later two formers escaped with Wrangel and third was returned to Rumanian owner. Yedineniye was lost by unknown cause in Autumn 1917. Fate of Lyudmila, Mlada, Rassvet and Rogday is unknown. Poryv was captured by British troops in Summer 1918 and escaped abroad. Grif was captured by German troops 3.4.1918 at Hanko and returned by them to owner.