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Turunmaa

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Karjala (ex-Филин [Filin])			Crichton-Vulcan, Aabo	1916	1918	1918	stricken 1953
Turunmaa (ex-Орлан [Orlan])			Crichton-Vulcan, Aabo	1916	1918	1918	stricken 1953

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	342
Displacement full, t	?
Length, m	50.1
Breadth, m	6.80
Draught, m	2.30
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 boilers
Power, h. p.	1150
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	coal 50
Endurance, nm(kts)	700(15)
Armament	2 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 1 x 1 - 40/39 QF Mk II, 30 mines
Complement	48

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Project history

Former Russian patrols of Vodorez class. Class consisted from six ships, incomplete to the revolution beginning. After revolution they all were captured by Finns. In 1921 Lun' and Vodorez were sold to Poland, Gorlitsa and Sova broken up, and Filin and Orlan were completed for Finnish Navy as Karjala and Turunmaa (originally Lun` and Vodorez were named so) and rated as gunboats.

Modernizations

early 1940s, both: - 1 x 1 - 40/39; + 3 x 1 - 20/60 Madsen.

Naval service

Turunmaa 2.5.1943 at Haapassaari was hard damaged by Soviet aircraft, stranded under tow and masked. She was commissioned again in October, 1943. After war both were used as minesweepers in Gulf of Finland and BU in 1953.