Emir Bukharsky class
 The Emir Bukharsky
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The Emir-Bukharsky class ( Russian Эмир Бухарский , after Alim Khan , the Emir of Bukhara ) was a class of Russian destroyers of the Baltic Fleet of Tsarist Russia, which was ordered and there during the Russo-Japanese War on the Baltic shipyards in September 1904 were built. The funds for the construction of the Emir Bukharsky class were made available by the “Committee for Strengthening the Russian Fleet through Voluntary Contributions”, which also took on the award of the contract. In Russian media she is often called the Finn ( Russian Финн ) class.
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In terms of size and combat power, the boats were among the first "real" destroyers of the Russian Navy. The most striking features of the class were the pronounced ramming stem, the rounded cruiser stern and the two chimneys with a strong stern fall. All in all, they represented a larger version of the kit class built by the Schichau shipyard in Gdansk in 1898/1900 .
Since the Russian Baltic Sea shipyards were busy with armaments contracts and the capabilities of the Russian mechanical engineering industry were also very limited, the Russian Navy sometimes turned its orders or subcontracts abroad. Due to the Russo-Japanese War, total production abroad was not possible, as no state was willing to join this war on the part of Russia. Therefore, renowned shipbuilding companies were commissioned with the project creation, the boiler and machine production or the prefabrication of the entire shipbuilding material. The Schichau shipyard supplied the plans and drawings as well as the propulsion systems for the boats.
The original design provided for two 7.5 cm and six 5.7 cm guns and a mine-laying device for 20 mines . Due to the war experience of 1904/05, however, a stronger caliber was chosen and the armament was increased to two 10.2 cm guns.
A parallel development was the Wsadnik class of the Kiel Germania shipyard , which manufactured two boats itself, supplied parts for two more and created the plans for the four similar boats of the Leitenant-Schestakow class for the Black Sea. In total, the Russian Navy received 24 similar destroyers according to German plans. AG Vulcan Stettin was behind the eight Ukraina-class destroyers and the four Finland-built Ochotnik-class destroyers . These 24 destroyers are also referred to by the Russian side as the Dobrowolez (volunteer) class, which takes the name of the procurement committee to strengthen the Russian fleet through voluntary contributions . In the case of the Emir Bucharski class , the ships were named after the regions or individual donors from whose donations the ships were built for the committee.
Boats and Fates
| ship | Shipyard | Keel laying | Launch | Commissioning | comment |
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Emir Bukharsky April 12, 1919 Yakov Sverdlov |
Sandvik shipyard, Helsingfors |
1904 | January 12, 1905 | May 28, 1906 | During the First World War, the boat was used in the Baltic Sea to guard the mine barriers in the Riga Bay and was involved in the battles in August 1915 and October 1917 . In October / November 1918 the boat moved over the Russian inland waterway network to the Caspian Sea and took part in the fighting against the British intervention army and white troops on the Volga and in Azerbaijan. It was removed from the fleet on June 13, 1923 and scrapped from December 1925. |
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Finn February 1919 Karl Liebknecht |
Sandvik shipyard, Helsingfors |
1904 | April 4, 1905 | 1906 | During the First World War, the boat was used in the Baltic Sea to guard the mine barriers in the Riga Bay and was involved in the battles in August 1915 and October 1917. In October / November 1918, the boat moved over the Russian inland waterways into the Caspian Sea and took part in the fighting against the British intervention army and White troops. It was removed from the fleet on June 13, 1923 and scrapped from December 1925. |
| Moskovityanin | Putilov Shipyard, St. Petersburg |
1904 | May 20, 1905 | 1906 | During the First World War, the boat was used in the Baltic Sea to guard the mine barriers in the Riga Bay and was involved in the battles in August 1915 and October 1917. In October / November 1918, the boat moved over the Russian inland waterway network to the Caspian Sea and was sunk there on May 21, 1919 by the British Caspian squadron during the naval battle of Alexandrov . Subsequently raised by white troops on January 10, 1920 and finally destroyed by artillery fire when they withdrew on March 28, 1920 in Petrovsk (today Makhachkala ). |
| Dobrowolez | Putilov Shipyard, St. Petersburg |
1904 | June 11, 1905 | July 5, 1906 | During the First World War, the boat was used in the Baltic Sea to guard the mine barriers in the Riga Bay and was involved in the fighting in August 1915. It was badly damaged by a Russian mine on August 27, 1915, repaired and sank on August 21, 1916 in just seven minutes after colliding with a drifting mine in Irbenstrasse , losing 37 men. |
literature
- Harald Fock: Black journeymen. Vol. 2: Destroyers until 1914. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1981, ISBN 3-7822-0206-6 .
- Harald Fock: Z-before! Vol. 1 International development and war missions of destroyers and torpedo boats 1914 to 1939. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1998, ISBN 3-7822-0207-4 .
- Robert Gardiner: Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Conway Maritime Press, London 1979, ISBN 0-85177-133-5 .
- René Greger: The Russian fleet in the First World War 1914–1917. JF Lehmanns, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-469-00303-3 .
