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Voevoda 1890s

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Казарский [Kazarskiy]		420	Schichau, Elbing, Germany	1888	1889	1890	dispatch vessel 10.1907, captured by Germany 1.5.1918, to Red Fleet 12.1920 as minelayer, dispatch vessel 1923, stricken 11.1925
Воевода [Voevoda]		457	Schichau, Elbing, Germany	7.1891	8.12.1891	6.1892	dispatch vessel 10.1907, captured by Finland 4.1918 (Matti Kurki)
Посадник [Posadnik]		458	Schichau, Elbing, Germany	8.1891	13.4.1892	6.1892	dispatch vessel 10.1907, captured by Finland 4.1918 (Klas Horn)
Всадник [Vsadnik]			Crichton, Abo	1892	1893	1894	sunk 15.12.1904
Гайдамак [Gaydamak]			Crichton, Abo	1892	1893	1894	scuttled 2.1.1905
Гридень [Griden`]			Nikolayev Admiralty	6.1891	12.11.1893	11.1895	dispatch vessel 10.1907, Board Guard ship 6.1908, stricken 1913

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	400
Displacement full, t	432
Length, m	60.2
Breadth, m	7.42
Draught, m	3.25 - 3.50
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 2 locomotive boilers
Power, h. p.	3500
Max speed, kts	21 - 22.5
Fuel, t	coal 90
Endurance, nm(kts)	1640(15)
Armament	6 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 3 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 1 - 381 TT (bow), 1 x 1 - 381 TT
Complement	65

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Project history

Small torpedo gunboats, one TT was fixed in the bow, one training TT was on deck. Rated as torpedo cruisers. In 1907 survived ships were converted to despatch vessels.

Modernizations

1907, Kazarskiy: - 6 x 1 - 47/40, 3 x 1 - 37/20, 1 - 381 TT, 1 x 1 - 381 TT; + 3 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 4 x 1 - 7.6/94

1909, Voevoda, Posadnik: - 2 x 1 - 47/40; + 2 x 1 - 57/50 Hotchkiss

1910, Voevoda: - 2 x 1 - 57/50, 4 x 1 - 47/40, 3 x 1 - 37/20, 1 - 381 TT, 1 x 1 - 381 TT; + 2 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94

1910, Posadnik: - 4 x 1 - 47/40, 3 x 1 - 37/20, 1 - 381 TT, 1 x 1 - 381 TT; + 2 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94

1911, Posadnik: - 1 x 1 - 75/48, 2 x 1 - 57/50; + 1 x 1 - 102/60, 1 x 1 - 7.6/94

1917, Posadnik: - 1 x 1 - 75/48, 1 x 1 - 7.6/94; + 1 x 1 - 102/60

1920, Kazarskiy: + 50 mines

1923, Kazarskiy: - 50 mines

Naval service

Vsadnik was sunk 15.12.1904 on shallow water in Port Arthur harbour by Japanese siege guns, additionally destroyed by own crew 2.1.1905, but salvaged by Japanese in October, 1905 and commissioned them as Makigumo. Gaydamak was exploded and scuttled by own crew 2.1.1905 in Port Arthur harbour but later salvaged by Japanese and commissioned them as Shikinami.

In April, 1918 Voevoda and Posadnik were captured by Finnish troops at Bjorneborg and till 1940 served under Finnish flag as Matti Kurki and Klas Horn. Kazarskiy was captured at Sevastopol by German troops 1.5.1918, re-captured by British-French troops 24.11.1918, liberated by Red Army 29.4.1919 but 24.6.1919 captured by White Army and commissioned by Southern Russia Navy. 14.11.1920 Kazarsky was abandoned by them at Sevastopol and 15.12.1920 entered service in the Red Navy as minelayer.