Chrabry

Chrabry

Ship data flag  Russian Empire Soviet Union   other ship names Krasnoye Znamia Ship type Gunboat Shipyard New Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg Keel laying December 15, 1894 Launch November 9, 1895 Commissioning 1897 Whereabouts Wrecked 1960 to 1962

Ship dimensions and crew length 72.2 m ( Lüa ) width 12.7 m Draft Max. 4.0 m displacement 1,823 tn.l.   crew 201 men

Machine system machine 2 × 3-cylinder compound machine 8 × Niclausse boiler indicated performance 2,200 PS (1,618 kW) Top speed 14.5 kn (27 km / h)

Armament 2 × guns 20.3 cm L / 45 1 × gun 15.2 cm L / 45 5 × gun 4.7 cm L / 40 1 × torpedo tube ⌀ 45.7 cm August 1914: 6 × Sk 10.5 cm L / 45 October 1914: 5 × guns 13.0 cm L / 55 7 × guns 4.5 cm 50 mines Armor Belt armor: 76–127 mm Command post: 82 mm Main deck: 25.4 mm

The Chrabry ( Russian Храбрый - the bold ) was a gunboat of the Imperial Russian Navy . The Soviet Navy led the warship under the name Krasnoye Snamja (Russian Красное Знамя - Red Banner ).

She was an artillery and propulsion-modified half-sister ship of the Grosjashchi class , which consisted of the Grozjashchi (Russian Грозящий ), the Gremjashchi (Russian Гремящий ) and the Otwaschny (Russian Отважный ).

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The soviet gunboat krasnoye znamya stood together with the Grosjaschtschi throughout the First World War in the Baltic Sea region in the fight and was the most significant actions, such as the struggle for the Gulf of Riga in 1915, the defense of the German Osel company in the fall of 1917 and the Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet involved . The two ships were mostly used as cover for destroyers and for coastal bombardment.

After the Winter War -ending Treaty of Moscow between Finland and the Soviet Union was the boat on Lavensaari , one of the newly occupied islands in the Gulf of Finland , stationed. On November 18, 1942, three Finnish speedboats attacked the port of Lavisaari in the course of the so-called Continuation War and sank the Krasnoye Znamia with a torpedo hit. The ship sank the following morning and was not lifted until November 13, 1943 and put back into service on September 17, 1944.

The boat was not taken out of service until 1956 and was scrapped from 1960 to 1962.

Web links

• Text about the gunboat ( memento of October 27, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)