NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Индигирка [Indigirka], 5.1920- Лейтенант Шмидт [Leytenant Shmidt], 5.1921- Индигирка [Indigirka]			Nizhegorodskiy Teplokhod, Nizhniy Novgorod	5.1917	9.1917	2.1919	gunboat, auxiliary cruiser 10.1919, minesweeper 5.1921, stricken 10.1923
Московский Комсомолец [Moskovskiy Komsomolets] (ex-Исеть [Iset']), 2.1945 - Московский Комсомол [Moskovskiy Komsomol]			Nizhegorodskiy Teplokhod, Nizhniy Novgorod	5.1917	12.1917	1920 // 1.1943	completed mercantile, command ship 5.1942, gunboat 1.1943, TS 1.1946, stricken 9.1950
Селенга [Selenga]			Nizhegorodskiy Teplokhod, Nizhniy Novgorod	5.1917	12.1917	---	BU incomplete 1919

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	320
Displacement full, t
Length, m	47.5
Breadth, m	8.00
Draught, m	1.47
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 diesels
Power, h. p.	400
Max speed, kts	8.5
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 6 x 1 - 7.6/94, 60 mines
Complement	67

Standard scale images

Project history

Multipurpose shallow-draught crafts intended for laying mines and anti-submarine nets. Lead Pripyat ` was converted from Volga diesel-engined tug Demosfen built in Nizhni Novgorod in 1914. Design appeared successful, and in 1916 the order for building of 8 more ships for Baltic has been given out. However, no any of them served on Baltic: Terek, Kuban ` and Indigirka were completed in 1918-1919 as gunboats for Volga Flotilla, remaining ships were never completed. In May, 1917 the order on building of multi-purpose diesel-engined ships of Strengthened Demosfen class combining features of minelayers, netlayers and gunboats (500t, 1600hp, 14kts, 3 102mm/60 guns, 1 76mm AA gun, 60 mines) was given out. This program remained non-realised.

Laid down in 1916 in settlement Bor off Nizhniy Novgorod as netlayer Iset for Baltic Fleet, completed after Civil war.

Modernizations

1921, Indigirka: + mechanical minesweeping gear

Naval service

In 1930th Iset` as Moskovskiy Komsomolets she was used as training vessel for Moscow department of "Osoaviakhim". 8.4.1942 she was mobilised and 1.5.1942 commissioned by Baltic Fleet as command ship; 4.1.1943 re-classified to gunboat. 9.1.1946 Moskovskiy Komsomolets was converted to training ship, 14.9.1950 disarmed and sold for scrap 15.5.1957.