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PURGA guard ship (project 52) (1957)


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  Purga

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Пурга [Purga]   116/630 196 Yd (Sudomekh Wks), Leningrad // 194 Yd (Marti Yd), Leningrad 17.12.1938 24.4.1941 31.3.1957 Board Guard ship, stricken 3.1990


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

3165

Displacement full, t

3958

Length, m

95.5

Breadth, m

15.1

Draught, m

5.70

No of shafts

3

Machinery

6 37D diesel-generators, 3 electric motors

Power, h. p.

12000

Max speed, kts

17

Fuel, t

diesel oil 700

Endurance, nm(kts)8500(10)
Armament

4 x 1 - 100/56 B-34USMA, 6 x 2 - 37/70 V-11M, 4 DCT (70), 30 mines

Electronic equipmentRif, Rym-1 radars, Tamir-5N sonar
Complement

250



Standard scale images


<i>Purga</i> 1952
Purga 1952
<i>Purga </i>1979
Purga 1979


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  <i>Purga</i>
  Purga


Project history

Icebreaking guard ship intended originally for Board Guard and laid down under project 52. After beginning of Great Patriotic war construction was suspended and restarted only in 1951 under redesigned project 52K. Ship can get over 30-40cm-thick ice (maximally 50-70cm).

Modernizations

1960s: - Tamir-5N sonar; + MG-11 sonar

Naval service

No significant events.