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RUSSIA / USSR
CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS
gunboats of WWII


Ships


Name

Compl. // Comm.

Builder

Tonnage, BRT or Disp., t

Dimensions, m

Speed, kts

Engine, Power hp

Armament

Fate
Амгунь [Amgun] 1940 // 7.1941 Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, Germany 1140 59.5x11.9x3.6 8.5 2VTE, 2boilers, 800 2 - 100/54, 4 - 45 sunk 10.11.1944
Бира [Bira] 1941 // 7.1941 Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, Germany 1100 59.5x11.9x3.9 9 2VTE, 2boilers, 800 2 - 100/54, 4 - 45 auxiliary 8.1945
Бурея [Bureya] 2.1941 // 7.1941 Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, Germany 1100 59.5x11.9x3.9 9 2VTE, 2boilers, 800 4 - 76/52, 4 - 45, 3 - 12.7 auxiliary 8.1945
Волга [Volga] 9.1940 // 7.1941 Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, Germany 1140 59.5x11.9x3.6 8.5 2VTE, 2boilers, 800 2 - 130/49, 4 - 45 auxiliary 8.1945
Зея [Zeya] early 1941 // 9.1941 Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, Germany 1140 59.5x11.9x3.9 10 2VTE, 1boiler, 800 2 - 130/49, 4 - 45 auxiliary 8.1945
Кама [Kama] 8.1940 // 7.1941 Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, Germany 1140 59.5x11.9x3.6 8.5 2VTE, 2boilers, 800 2 - 130/49, 4 - 45 auxiliary 8.1945
Москва [Moskva] 1940 // 7.1941 Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, Germany 1140 59.5x11.9x3.6 8.5 2VTE, 2boilers, 800 2 - 100/54, 4 - 45 auxiliary 10.1945
Нора [Nora] 2.1941 // 7.1941 Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, Germany 1100 59.5x11.9x3.9 9 2VTE, 2boilers, 800 4 - 76/52, 4 - 45, 3 - 12.7 auxiliary 8.1945
Ока [Oka] 1940 // 9.1941 Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, Germany 1140 59.5x11.9x3.6 8.5 2VTE, 2boilers, 800 2 - 130/49, 4 - 45 auxiliary 10.1945
Олёкма [Olyokma] 1941 // 7.1941 Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, Germany 1100 59.5x11.9x3.9 9 2VTE, 2boilers, 800 2 - 100/54, 4 - 45 sunk 5.10.1941
Селемджа [Selemdja] 4.1941 // 7.1941 Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, Germany 1100 59.5x11.9x3.9 9 2VTE, 2boilers, 800 2 - 100/54, 4 - 45 auxiliary 10.1945
Серго Орджоникидзе [Sergo Ordzhonikize] 1940 // 10.1941 112 Yd, Gorkiy 1220 58.1x12.6x2.9 12 2VTE, 2boilers, 1200 2 - 130/49, 4 - 45, 1 - 37, 4 - 12.7 returned 3.1943
Днестр [Dnestr] (ex-Uj114, ex-KT39) 1944 // 2.1945 Budapest, Hungary 1300 67.5x11.0x3.1 14.5 2VTE, 3boilers, 2400 2 - 75/43, 1 - 37, 2 - 20 auxiliary 3.1946
Кубань [Kuban] (ex-Uj110, ex-KT25) 1944 // 9.1944 Budapest, Hungary 1300 67.5x11.0x3.1 14.5 2VTE, 3boilers, 2400 2 - 75/43, 1 - 37, 2 - 20 auxiliary 3.1945
Терек [Terek] (ex-Uj112, ex-KT33) 1944 // 9.1944 Budapest, Hungary 1300 67.5x11.0x3.1 14.5 2VTE, 3boilers, 2400 2 - 75/43, 1 - 37, 2 - 20 auxiliary 3.1945


100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels


Кронштадт [Kronshtadt], 3.1940 - И-8 [I-8] (1913, 425, 2 - 130/50, 11.1939 - 3.1940, 7.1941 - 28.8.1941); Красная Горка [Krasnaya Gorka] (1913, 425, 2 - 130/50, 11.1939 - 3.1940); Ораниенбаум [Oranienbaum] (1913, 425, 2 - 130/50, 11.1939 - 3.1940); Сестрорецк [Sestroretsk] (1913, 425, 2 - 130/50, 11.1939 - 3.1940, 7.1941 - 3.1944); Лахта [Lakhta] (1899, 580, 2 - 100/56, 7.1941 - 3.1944); Буг [Bug] (1927, 840, 2 - 130/55, 7.1941 - 24.8.1942); Днестр [Dnestr] (1928, 840, 2 - 130/55, 7.1941 - 10.8.1942); Дон [Don] (1928, 840, 2 - 130/55, 7.1941 - 24.8.1942); Рион [Rion] (1928, 840, 2 - 130/55, 7.1941 - 11.5.1942); №4 [No4] (ex-Ледокол IV [Ledokol IV], ex-Знамя Социализма [Znamya Sotsializma], ex-Ледокол IV [Ledokol IV]) (1906, 750, 2 - 76/30, 6.1920 - 6.1922, 8.1941 - 2.7.1942); Шексна [Shexna] (ex-Aallokas) (1936, 400, 2 - 76/55, 8.1941 - 4.1943); Кренкель [Krenkel] (ex-Фомин [Fomin]) (1934,, 1 - 76/30, 10.1941 - 19.10.1941); Октябрь [Oktyabr] (1931,, 1 - 76/30, 10.1941 - 2.9.1942); Ростов-Дон [Rostov-Don] (1936,, 1 - 76/30, 10.1941 - 2.9.1942); Серафимович [Serafimovich] (1935,, 1 - 76/30, 10.1941 - 28.7.1942); Бурлак [Burlak] (1916,, 7.1942 - 21.8.1942); Урал [Ural] (1897,, 7.1942 - 21.8.1942)

Standard scale images


<i>Nora</i> 1943
Nora 1943
<i>Bira</i> 1944
Bira 1944
<i>Sergo Ordzhonikize</i> 1942 more than 1000 BRT
Sergo Ordzhonikize 1942 more than 1000 BRT


Project history

Merchant vessels converted to gunboats. Dnestr, Kuban and Terek were German submarine chasers in hulls of KT-class cargo ships, captured by Soviet troops on Black Sea.

Modernizations

1943, Bira: + 1 - 100/54

1943, Selemdzha: - 2 - 100/54, 2 - 45; + 2 - 130/49, 2 - 37

1943, Nora: - 4 - 76/52, 2 - 45; + 2 - 130/49, 2 - 37

1943, Bureya: - 4 - 76/52, 2 - 45; + 2 - 130/49, 4 - 37

1943, Bira: - 2 - 45; + 2 - 37, 1 - 20

1943, Oka: - 2 - 45; + 4 - 37, 2 - 20

1943, Moskva, Kama, Volga: + 1 - 20

1943, Zeya: + 2 - 20

Naval service

Olyokma 5.10.1941 was sunk by German aircraft on Lake Ladoga. Kama 22.6.1943 was sunk by German aircraft at Lavensaari, salvaged 27.9.1943 and 16.11.1943 commissioned again. Amgun 10.11.1944 was mined at Tallinn and foundered under tow.