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Zhitomir

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Бобруйск [Bobruysk] (ex-Horodyszcze)			Danziger Werft, Germany		1920	8.1920 // 10.1939	scuttled 31.8.1941
Винница [Vinnitsa] (ex-Torun, ex-Mozyrz)			Danziger Werft, Germany		1920	4.1921 // 10.1939	sunk 16.7.1941
Витебск [Vitebsk] (ex-Warszawa)			Danziger Werft, Germany		1920	8.1920 // 10.1939	scuttled 18.9.1941
Житомир [Zhitomir] (ex-Pinsk)			Danziger Werft, Germany		1920	8.1920 // 10.1939	sunk 7.9.1941

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	110
Displacement full, t	130
Length, m	34.5
Breadth, m	5.10
Draught, m	0.65
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Glennifer petrol engines
Power, h. p.	140 Zhitomir: 200
Max speed, kts	9
Fuel, t	petrol
Endurance, nm(kts)	648(6)
Armour, mm	belt: 6 - 5, turrets: 10, CT: 10
Armament	1 x 2 - 75/34 vz.1897/17, 1 x 1 - 75/34 vz.1897/17, 4 x 1 - 7.6/94
Complement	44

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Project history

Former Polish river monitors of Warszawa class. All were scuttled by crews 18.9.1939 on the river Pripyat; later salvaged by Soviet wreckers, repaired at Pinsk, rearmed and commissioned by Red Navy.

Ship protection

Only bulletproof protection.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Vinnitsa 15.7.1941 in battle against German field artillery on Berezina received damage and ran ashore off Parichi where 16.7.1941 she was destroyed by crew. Vitebsk 18.9.1941 was blown up by crew near Kiev. Bobruysk 31.8.941 was damaged in battle against German field artillery and after expending of ammunition was blown up by crew at settlement Okuninovo on Dnepr. Zhitomir 1.9.1941 ran ashore at settlement Cherni on Dnepr and was blown up by crew 7.9.1941.