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

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Аметист [Ametist] (ex-Sulev, ex-A32)		965	Schichau, Elbing, Germany	early 1916	15.7.1916	10.1916 // 8.1940	to Board Guard 10.1940, guard ship 6.1941, to Board Guard 6.1945, disarmed 1950

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	227
Displacement full, t	250
Length, m	49.0 wl 50.0 oa
Breadth, m	5.32
Draught, m	2.12 normal 2.34 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 set Schichau geared steam turbine, 1 Marine doubled boiler
Power, h. p.	3250
Max speed, kts	25
Fuel, t	oil 53
Endurance, nm(kts)	600(12)
Armament	3 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 3 x 1 - 12.7/79, 2 DCR (16)
Complement	46

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Project history

Former German torpedo boat A32. 7.11.1917 she ran aground during a storm on island Saaremaa in Gulf of Riga. In October, 1923 she was raised by Estonian wreckers and in August, 1924 commissioned by Estonian Navy as Sulev. With occurrence of Estonia in the USSR, 6.8.1940 she was commissioned by Baltic Fleet, but 17.10.1940 rearmed and transferred to Board Guard as Ametist.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

11.7.1942 Ametist was hard damaged as result of beaching and was never completely repaired; 4.7.1945 she was converted to TS, in 1950 disarmed and broken up in 1955.



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