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Ships

Names	Builders	Completed	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
M.1 (Теплоход №1 [Teplokhod No1]) M.2 (Теплоход №2 [Teplokhod No2]), 8.1940- Кери [Keri], 7.1941- №1 [No1], 7.1941- №1502 [No1502] M.3 (Теплоход №3 [Teplokhod No3]) M.4 (Теплоход №4 [Teplokhod No4]) M.5 (Теплоход №5 [Teplokhod No5])	Crichton, St. Petersburg: M.1-5	6/1914: M.1 - 5 6/1914 // 8.1940: Keri (2nd time)	M.1 (captured by Germany 4.1918, Finnish T15 Paukku), M.2 (captured by Germany 2.1918, Estonian Kalev), M.3 (captured by Germany 2.1918, Estonian Tahkona), M.4 (captured by Germany 4.1918, Finnish T21 Loimu), M.5 (captured by Germany 4.1918, Finnish T16 Lieska) No1502 (28.8.1941) (2nd time)	none	none

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	34
Displacement full, t
Length, m	20.7
Breadth, m	5.00
Draught, m	1.20
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Bolinder semi-diesels
Power, h. p.	60
Max speed, kts	7.2
Fuel, t	diesel oil 0.9
Endurance, nm(kts)	420(5)
Armament	1 x 1 - 7.6/94, 25 mines
Complement	8

Standard scale images

Project history

Built in St. Petersburg and Finland. In some documents they were named Teplokhod-1 - 13 (Motorship-1 - 13). Boats were used as coastal minelayers and minesweepers. M11 - 13 remained incomplete.

Modernizations

1941, Keri: + mechanical minesweeping gear.

Naval service

In 1918 all were at Revel and Helsingfors; M-1, 4 and 5 were captured by Finland, M-2 and 3 by Estonia. Small minelayer ("motorship") of IRN No2 was abandoned in 1918 in Revel and in 1919 commissioned by Estonian Navy as M8, in 1927 renamed Kalev and in 1935 Keri. Since occurrence of Estonia in USSR 13.8.1940 she was commissioned by Baltic Fleet as Keri.

No1502 was scuttled at Tallinn 28.8.1941; she was salvaged by Germans and since May, 1942 served under German flag as patrol motor launch (carried names Ks156, ORe76), since late 1943 as dispatch vessel Keri. In the autumn of 1944 she escaped with refugees to Sweden where she was interned. In 1945 boat was returned to the USSR.