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Pioner  

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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Копчик [Kopchik]			Sandvikens Yd, Helsingfors	1915	1916	1916	survey vessel 3.1918, guard vessel 5.1921, wrecked 7.6.1923
Коршун [Korshun], 2.1925- Пионер [Pioner], 11.1951- Тагул [Tagul]			Sandvikens Yd, Helsingfors	1915	1916	1916	survey vessel 3.1918, guard vessel 5.1921, dispatch vessel 11.1923, stricken 1938, re-commissioned as gunboat 5.1941, dispatch vessel 11.1951, hulk 10.1957

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	450
Displacement full, t	550
Length, m	51.2
Breadth, m	7.30
Draught, m	2.90
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 3 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	1500
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	coal 38
Endurance, nm(kts)	940(10)
Armament	2 x 1 - 105/42 SK L/45, 1 x 1 - 40/39 Vickers, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94, 70 mines
Complement	57

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Project history

Laid down as target tugs. Both ships were armed by German guns removed from captured cruiser Magdeburg.

Modernizations

1920s, Pioner: - 2 x 1 - 105/42, 1 x 1 - 40/39, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94; + 2 x 1 - 102/60, 1 x 1 - 76/28 8K, mine stowage decreased to 30.

Naval service

 Kopchik was sunk 7.6.1923 in result of navigating accident; she was raised 31.8.1923, but never commissioned again.  Korshun after Civil war was classified as guard and training ship, since 10.11.1939 as MTB depot ship and since 16.5.1941 as gunboat.     Pioner 27.9.1941 was damaged by German artillery and aircraft, has sunk on shallow water in Leningrad Sea Canal. She was raised in October, 1944 and commissioned again 30.11.1945 as despatch vessel; 13.11.1951 renamed Tagul. Since 3.10.1957 she served as receiving ship BRN-38 and BU in January, 1959.