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KUBANETS gunboats (1887 - 1889)


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Donets

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Кубанец [Kubanets]     ROPiT, Sevastopol 5.1886 10.4.1887 8.1887 captured by Germany 1.5.1918, re-captured 4.1919, captured by Whites 24.6.1919, salvage vessel 8.1920
Терец [Terets], 12.1922- Знамя Социализма [Znamya Sotsializma]     ROPiT, Sevastopol 5.1886 30.8.1887 11.1887 captured by Germany 1.5.1918, to Whites 5.1919, to Red Navy 12.1920, hulk 1931
Уралец [Uralets]     ROPiT, Sevastopol 5.1886 9.12.1887 4.1888 wrecked 1.12.1913
Запорожец [Zaporozhets]     Nikloayev Admiralty 5.1886 5.6.1887 11.1888 sold 11.1911
Черноморец [Chernomorets]     Nikolayev Admiralty 5.1886 3.9.1887 6.1889 stricken 8.1911
Донец [Donets]     Nikolayev Admiralty 5.1886 1.12.1887 1889 captured by Germany 1.5.1918, to Whites 5.1919, foundered 5.1919, salvaged but never repaired


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1280

Displacement full, t

1505

Length, m

Kubanets, Terets, Uralets: 67.2

Zaporozhets, Chernomorets, Donets: 64.5

Breadth, m

12.2

Donets: 10.7

Draught, m

3.61 - 3.86 max

No of shafts2
Machinery

Kubanets, Terets, Uralets: 2 HC, 6 cylindrical boilers

Zaporozhets, Chernomorets, Donets: 2 HTE, 6 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

1500

Max speed, kts

11 - 14

Fuel, t

coal 250

Endurance, nm(kts)2100(6)
Armament

2 x 1 - 203/33, 1 x 1 - 152/32 obr. 1877, 6 x 5 - 47/22 Hotchkiss, 2 - 381 TT (aw, beam)

Complement

180



Standard scale images


<i>Kubanets</i> 1911
Kubanets 1911
<i>Donets</i> 1916
Donets 1916


Graphics


<i>Donets</i>
Donets


Project history

Seaworthy gunboats for service in Black Sea, built on drawings of Mandzhur and Koreets. Differed among themselves by outer view and general arrangement.

Modernizations

1905, Uralets: - 2 x 1 - 203/33, 1 x 1 - 152/32, 6 x 5 - 47/22; + 2 x 1 - 152/44 Canet, 1 x 1 - 120/43 Canet, 2 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 1 x 1 - 7.6/94

1911, Kubanets; 1913, Terets: - 2 x 1 - 203/33, 1 x 1 - 152/32, 6 x 5 - 47/22; + 2 x 1 - 152/44 Canet, 1 x 1 - 120/43 Canet, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94

1912, Donets: - 2 x 1 - 203/33, 1 x 1 - 152/32, 6 x 5 - 47/22; + 2 x 1 - 152/44 Canet, 1 x 1 - 120/43 Canet, 2 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94

1916, Terets: + 2 x 1 - 75/48 Canet

1921, Terets: - 2 x 1 - 152/42, 1 x 1 - 120/43, 2 x 1 - 75/48, 2 x 1 - 47/40; + 3 x 1 - 130/53, 2 x 1 - 76/28 Lender

Naval service

Uralets 1.12.1913 ran ashore at Sevastopol and was wrecked by a surf. Donets 16.10.1914 was sunk at Odessa by Turkish destroyer. She was salvaged and re-commissioned. In May, 1919 Donets was sunk again at Tendra plait during a storm. In 1921 she was again salvaged and mothballed.