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Virsaitis 1926

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Virsaitis (ex-Sarkana Latvija, ex-M68)			Neptun, Rostock, Germany	1916	25.7.1917	10.1917 // 7.1919	to USSR 13.8.1940 (Вирсайтис [Virsaytis])

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	500
Displacement full, t	539
Length, m	56.0 wl 59.3 oa
Breadth, m	7.40
Draught, m	2.15
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	1850
Max speed, kts	16
Fuel, t	coal 120
Endurance, nm(kts)	2000(6)
Armament	2 x 1 - 88/42 Tbts L/45 C/14, 30 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	51

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Project history

Former German minesweeper, M68 was mined off Latvian coast, ran ashore and later abandoned being repaired in dry dock in Riga. Repair was completed by Latvian and minesweeper was commissioned by them in January 1919 (Latvia took real independence in July, when Germans abandoned).

Modernizations

1939: - 2 x 1 - 88/42; + 2 x 1 - 84/52 Škoda M.27, 2 x 1 - 47/40 Škoda, mine stowage raised to 40

Naval service

Virsaitis was incorporated to Red Navy in August 1940.