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Leytenant Burakov Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Лейтенант Бураков [Leytenant Burakov] (ex-Таку [Taku], ex-海华 [Hai Hoha])		611	Schichau, Elbing, Germany	1898	1899	1900 // 2.1901	scuttled 30.7.1904

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	243
Displacement full, t	284
Length, m	59.0
Breadth, m	6.40
Draught, m	2.55
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	6000
Max speed, kts	33.6
Fuel, t	coal 67
Endurance, nm(kts)	2000(10)
Armament	6 x 1 - 47/30 Hotchkiss Mk II, 2 x 1 - 350 TT
Complement	57

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Project history

Originally the Chinese Hai Hoha captured by the British destroyers Fame and Whiting in the attack on the Taku forts, and assigned to Russia. She had two large funnels and two deck TT and was easily the fastest of the Russian flotilla in the war with Japan.

Modernizations

1904: - 2 x 1 - 350 TT; + 1 x 1 - 381 TT

Naval service

She was torpedoed by the picket boats of the Mikasa and Fuji in Ta Ho Bay to the east of Port Arthur 23.7.1904 and exploded by own crew 30.7.1904 (towing was impossible).

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.