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Gelendzhik

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Names	Builders	Completed	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
Геленджик [Gelendzhik], 4.1895- №255, 7.1915- Т.9 [T.9], 4.1916- Т.79 [T.79], 8.1916- Т.279 [T.279], 10.1916- №9	F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France: Gelendzhik	1884: Gelendzhik 7/1915: T.9 (2nd time)	№9 (1.5.1918)	none	1907: №255

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	71
Displacement full, t	75
Length, m	37.4
Breadth, m	3.78
Draught, m	2.13 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VC, 1 locomotive boiler
Power, h. p.	520
Max speed, kts	18
Fuel, t	coal 11
Endurance, nm(kts)	1050(11)
Armament	1 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 1 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 2 - 381 TT (bow)
Complement	16

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Project history

Three small masts and two funnels abreast. The TT were fixed in the bows.

Modernizations

1910: - 2 - 381 TT; + 1 x 1 - 7.6/94, mechanical minesweeping gear

Naval service

TB No255 was stricken in 1907 but in July 1915 commissioned again as minesweeper (really converted to minesweeper in 1910), in October 1916 reclassified as despatch vessel. 1.5.1918 she was captured by German troops at Sevastopol.