NAVYPEDIA

Photo

Poti

Ships

Names	Builders	Completed	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
Поти [Poti], 4.1895- №258 [No258], 10.1916- №10 [No10], 5.1919- Охотник [Okhotnik]	Augustin Normand, Le Havre, France: Poti	1883: Poti	none	none	10/1923: Okhotnik

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	63
Displacement full, t
Length, m	38.0
Breadth, m	3.05
Draught, m	2.03
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VC, 1 locomotive boiler
Power, h. p.	575
Max speed, kts	18.5
Fuel, t	coal 11
Endurance, nm(kts)	670(11.5)
Armament	2 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 2 - 381 TT (bow)
Complement	18

Standard scale images

Graphics

Project history

Very successful ship of early Normand type.

Modernizations

1909: - 2 x 5 - 37/17, 2 - 381 TT; + 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 1 x 1 - 7.6/94

1916: - 1 x 1 - 7.6/94; + 1 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 1 x 1 - 381 TT

Naval service

Poti was reclassified as harbour craft in January, 1908 but returned to battle order as dispatch vessel in October, 1916. She was laid up in March, 1918, captured by Germans 1.5.1918, next time by British-French troops 24.11.1918 and transferred them to White Army in April 1919. Later she was abandoned in November, 1920 and commissioned by Red Fleet as dispatch vessel in December.