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IMPERIAL RUSSIAN NAVY (RUSSIA)

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

dispatch vessels and guard ships of WWI

Kolkhida 1914

more than 1000 BRT

Name

Launched // Comm.

Builder

Tonnage, BRT or Disp., t

Dimensions, m

Speed, kts

Engine, Power hp

Armament

Fate

������� [Zarnitsa] (ex-����� [Foros]) 1891 // 6.1915 UK 1086 79.2x11.4 14.7 2400 3-47/40 hulk 10.1922
������ [Krechet] (ex-[U], ex-Polaris) 9.1898 // 8.1915 Hurley, Dundee, UK 2844 85.8x11.6 13.5 2600   cargo vessel 12.1926

������� ����� ��������� ���������� [Velikiy Knyaz' Aleksandr Mikhaylovich]

1907 // Autumn 1914 Malmö, Sweden 1482 74.2x10.6 17.5 2260 4-75/48 captured by Germany 1.5.1918
���� [Yakut] 1887 // 1916   1300 65.7x7.2 12 1100 2-75/48 captured by Germany 1.5.1918
����������� ����� [Princhipessa Mariya], 3.1918- ������������ [Osvobozhdeniye] 1896 // 9.1916 Livorno, Italy 3000 88.0x14.5 15 4000   captured by Germany 1.5.1918
��������� [Gorislava] (ex-Josefina) 1899 // 8.1916 USA 1650 75.6x9.0 15 3000 2-102/60 captured by British 8.1918, AMC of Red Navy 3.1920, despatch vessel 3.1921, stricken 6.1924
�������� [Yedineniye] (ex-Kipr) 1913 // 6.1917 USA 1415 77.0x8.7 16 3200   lost Autumn 1917
������� [Kolguyev], 1920- ���� [Yushar] 1915 // 7.1916 UK 2000 73.2x10.7 11 1200 4-75/48 captured by British 8.1918, re-commissioned 4.1920, transferred mercantile 5.1920
������� [Lyudmila] (ex-Lady Gwendolin) 1911 // 7.1916 UK 3817         unlisted 1917
����� [Mlada] (ex-Semiramida) 1900 // 2.1917   1792   15   3-130/53 unlisted 1917
����� [Poryv] (ex-Vanadis) 1913 // 6.1917 USA 1233 84.4x9.7 15 3000   captured by British Summer 1918
������� [Rassvet] (ex-Alberta) 1896 // 6.1917 USA 1160 76.8x10.3 14 3000   unlisted 1917
������ [Rogday] (ex-Nevada) 1915 // 8.1917 USA 2122 64.4x12.9 15 1300   unlisted 1917
��������� [Yaroslavna] (ex-Lysistrata) 1901 // 7.1916 Denny, Dumbarton, UK 3315 96.6x12.2 18 3500 2-120/43, 2-47/40 captured by British 8.1918, commissioned again 4.1920, board guard 11.1922, stricken 1950s
����� [Voron] (ex-��������� �2 [Libavskiy No2] 1896 // 7.1916 Oslo, Norway 1100 40.5x9.6x4.5 10.3 700 2 - 75/50 to Latvia 6.1922
���� [Grif] (ex-Bore I) // 10.1916             captured by Germany 3.4.1918
������ [Yastreb] (ex-Bore-II) 1900 // 3.1916 Finland 1150 57.9x8.8x4.9 12 1124 2 - 105/45 depot ship 1.1922, dispatch vessel 7.1941 - 2.1944

100 - 1000 BRT

����� [Izhora] (1913, 210, 7.1914-11/1924); ����� [Viola] (ex-Friedrich Wilhelm) (1893, 422, 8.1914-13.4.1918); ���� [Eros] (1892, 500, 8.1915-10/1918); ������� [Kolkhida] (ex-Tamara) (1898, 992, 3-75/48, 6.1913-1.5.1918); ��������� [Dneprovets] (ex-Dneprovskiy Kanal) (1905, 525, 1-75/48, 1916-1.5.1918); ������ [Voskhod] (ex-Diana) (1896, 751, 6.1917-1917); ���� [Iney] (ex-Halden) (1909, 220, 12.1916-?.8.1918); ������ [Kupava] (ex-Surendalsfiord) (1915, 805, 2-76/28, 12.1916-?.8.1918); ����� [Orlik] (ex-P. Hansen) (1914, 300, 2.1917-?.3.1918); �������� [Snezhinka] (ex-Teklia) (1895, 180, 8.1916-?.8.1918); �������� [Sokolitsa] (ex-Alvina) (1895, 526, 7.1917-?.3.1918, 3.1920-12/1922); ������ [Ruslan] (ex-������� [Dobrynya]) (1914, 350, 1 - 75/50, 11.1916 - 4.1924)

Project history: Merchant vessels converted to despatch vessels during World War One.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Velikiy Knyaz' Aleksandr Mikhaylovich, Yakut and Princhipessa Mariya were captured by Germans 1.5.1918 at Sevastopol, later two formers escaped with Wrangel and third was returned to Rumanian owner. Yedineniye was lost by unknown cause in Autumn 1917. Fate of Lyudmila, Mlada, Rassvet and Rogday is unknown. Poryv was captured by British troops in Summer 1918 and escaped abroad. Grif was captured by German troops 3.4.1918 at Hanko and returned by them to owner.

Ivan Gogin, 2014