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Gilyak

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Гиляк [Gilyak]			New Admiralty, St. Petersburg	10.1904	27.10.1906	10.1907	scuttled 3.4.1918
Кореец [Koreets]			Putilov Yd, St. Petersburg	5.1906	23.5.1907	10.1907	scuttled 20.8.1915
Бобр [Bobr]			Nevsky Engine Wks, St. Petersburg	2.1906	12.6.1907	7.1908	captured by Germany 3.4.1918
Сивуч [Sivuch]			Nevsky Engine Wks, St. Petersburg	2.1906	1.8.1907	7.1908	sunk 19.8.1915

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	960
Displacement full, t	1100
Length, m	66.5
Breadth, m	11.0
Draught, m	3.43 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 Belleville boilers
Power, h. p.	900
Max speed, kts	12
Fuel, t	coal 130
Endurance, nm(kts)	1600(9)
Armour, mm	CT: 20
Armament	2 x 1 - 120/43 Canet, 4 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 3 x 1 - 7.6/94, 40 mines
Complement	140

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Project history

Generally resembling a smaller Khivinets but cut down alt and with a military foremast and pole mainmast. Only the two forward 75mm were in casemates.

Modernizations

1913, Koreets: + 4 x 1 - 75/48 Canet

1917, Gilyak, Bobr: + 2 x 1 - 75/48 Canet

Naval service

Sivuch was sunk 19.8.1915 by the dreadnought Posen in the Gulf of Riga; Koreets escaped but ran aground and was blown up by her crew 20.8.1915 in Gulf of Riga. Bobr was taken over by the Germans 3.4.1918 as Bieber and in 1919 became the Estonian Lembit. Gilyak was blown up by own crew to avoid capture by Germans 3.4.1918 at Abo (Finland).