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Abrek

Ships

Name	No	Yad No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Абрек [Abrek]			Crichton, Abo	7.1895	23.5.1896	10.1897	dispatch vessel 10.1907, board guard ship 9.1908, dispatch vessel 8.1914, survey vessel 12.1918, dispatch vessel 4.1926, hulk 6.1940

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	535
Displacement full, t	675
Length, m	65.5
Breadth, m	7.75
Draught, m	3.35 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 Normand-Du Temple boilers
Power, h. p.	4500
Max speed, kts	21.2
Fuel, t	coal 120
Endurance, nm(kts)	2000(12)
Armament	2 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 1 - 450 TT, 1 x 1 - 450 TT (8)
Complement	88

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Project history

Improved variant of Leytenant Ilyin with better seaworthiness. Rated as torpedo cruiser and dispatch vessel since October, 1907.

Modernizations

1908: - 2 x 1 - 75/48, 2 x 1 - 47/40, 1 - 450 TT, 1 x 1 - 450 TT; + 4 x 1 - 57/50 Hotchkiss

1921: - 4 x 1 - 57/50, 2 x 1 - 47/40; + 2 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 1 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 1 x 1 - 7.6/94

Naval service

In 1907 Abrek was converted to despatch vessel and transferred to the Board Guard Corps. With beginning of WWI she was again returned to Baltic Fleet; BU in 1948.