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Kars and Ardagan 1911

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Карс [Kars], 5.1920- Ленин [Lenin]			New Admiralty, St. Petersburg	12.1908	4.9.1909	12.1910	captured by Whites 31.7.1918, re-captured 4.1920, accommodation ship 12.1954
Ардаган [Ardagan], 5.1920- Троцкий [Trotskiy], 2.1927- Красный Азербайджан [Krasnyy Azerbaydzhan]			New Admiralty, St. Petersburg	12.1908	25.9.1909	12.1910	captured by Whites 31.7.1918, re-captured 4.1920, accommodation ship 12.1954

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	623
Displacement full, t	635
Length, m	58.6 pp 61.6 oa
Breadth, m	8.53
Draught, m	2.62 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 diesels
Power, h. p.	1000
Max speed, kts	14
Fuel, t	diesel oil 30
Endurance, nm(kts)	1270(11)
Armament	2 x 1 - 120/49 Vickers, 4 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 4 x 1 - 7.6/94
Complement	128

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Project history

Purpose built gunboats intended for police service and fishery protection on Caspian sea. Projected on the basis of gunboat Gilyak construction. First-ever seaworthy surface ships with diesel machinery.

Modernizations 6.

1916, both: - 1 x 1 - 120/49, 2 x 1 - 75/48

5/1918, both: + 1 x 1 - 120/49 Vickers, 2 x 1 - 75/48 Canet

1920, both: - 2 x 1 - 120/49, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94; + 2 x 1 - 102/60, 1 x 1 - 76/28 Lender, 1 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss

1926, both: - 4 x 1 - 75/48, 1 x 1 - 37/20; + 1 x 1 - 102/60, 1 x 1 - 76/28 8K (Lender)

1937, both: engines were replaced by more powerful (2200bhp, 15kts, 50t of diesel oil); new armament consisted of 3 x 1 - 100/54 B-24BM, 2 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 2 x 1 - 12.7/79, 30 mines

1942, both: - 2 x 1 - 45/43; + 4 x 1 - 37/63 70K, 2 x 2 - 12.7/90

1944, Krasnyy Azerbaydzhan: - 2 x 2 - 12.7/79; + 2 x 1 - 37/63 70K

Naval service

29.12.1954 both ships were converted to accommodation ships (PKZ-100 and 101 respectively) and BU in 1958-1959.