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Vzryv

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Минреп [Minrep]			Izhora Wks, St. Petersburg	12.1909	30.3.1911	12.1911	captured by Finland 4.1918
Взрыв [Vzryv]			Izhora Wks, St. Petersburg	12.1909	19.4.1911	12.1911	sunk 28.5.1916
Запал [Zapal]			Izhora Wks, St. Petersburg	1910	12.1911	7.1912	survey vessel 2.1948
Проводник [Provodnik]			Izhora Wks, St. Petersburg	1910	12.1911	12.1912	sunk 27.8.1914
Фугас [Fugas]			Izhora Wks, St. Petersburg	1910	12.1911	12.1912	sunk 5.12.1916

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	137
Displacement full, t	150
Length, m	45.0
Breadth, m	6.10
Draught, m	1.90
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VDE, 2 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	280
Max speed, kts	11
Fuel, t	coal 13
Endurance, nm(kts)	570(9)
Armament	1 x 1 - 57/50 Hotchkiss, 1 x 1 - 7.6/94, mechanical minesweeping gear, 50 mines
Complement	30

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Project history

First-ever rigorous purpose-built minesweepers.

Modernizations

1932, Zapal: - 1 x 1 - 57/50; + 1 x 1 - 76/28 8K, 1 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 1 x 1 - 7.6/94, mine capacity decreased to 32. Displacement was 150 / 205t, draught was 2.5m, speed 11.5kts at 300hp, complement 37.

Naval service

Three ships were lost on mines (Provodnik 27.8.1914, Vzryv 28.5.1916 on own mine, Fugas 5.12.1916). Minrep in April, 1918 was captured by Finnish troops. Zapal served in the Soviet Navy, in days of Great Patriotic War she was under repair and has been handed over on demolition only in 1964.