Gawriil class
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 The Russian destroyer Gavriil in 1918. |
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| Ship type: | destroyer |
| Shipyard | Russian-Baltic Works, Reval |
| Period of service: | 1916-1919 |
| Units: | 6th |
| Technical specifications | |
| Length: | 98 m |
| Width: | 9.34 m |
| Draft: | 3.9 m |
| Displacement : | Construction: 1,260 t, maximum approx. 1,450 t |
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| Speed: | 34.0 kn |
| Range: | 1,680 nm at 21 kn 360 nm at 34 kn |
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| Crew: | 150 men |
The Gawriil class ( Russian Гавриил for Gabriel ) was a class of Russian destroyers of the Baltic fleet of Tsarist Russia, which was based on the design of the prototype boat Novik , in the wake of the small shipbuilding program approved in June 1912 for the Baltic Sea in 1912 at Baltic shipyards ordered and built there.
draft
Compared to the Nowik , the design was a little smaller. The plans were drawn up with the help of the German shipyard Blohm & Voss in Hamburg for the Putilow shipyard, which forwarded them to the Russian-Baltic Works in Reval. Differences to the Leitenant-Iljin class of the Putilow shipyard, which were built at the same time, and the Orfei class of the Ust-Ischora shipyard of the Petersburger Metallwerke existed in the arrangement and shape of the fans, the chimney extensions and the shape of the bridge.
Naming
The boats were named after sailing ships in Russian naval war history that took part in numerous naval battles.
Follow-up buildings
On December 11, 1916, the Russian-Baltic Works received the order from the Shipbuilding Headquarters to manufacture the Rymnik , Chios , Smolensk , Stirsuden and Tenedos boats of the Gogland class , originally ordered from the Ziese-Mühlgraben shipyard in Riga , with the material already processed according to the Gawriil -Design to continue. For the first time, the ships were to be equipped with two torpedo twin sets of the new 533 mm caliber and two 57 mm L / 48 anti-aircraft guns. Constant new demands of the admiral's staff and the fleet commander Adrian Nepenin about increased artillery armament and changed purposes as "replacement cruiser" did not allow the construction to progress. So that the material was eventually scrapped after the war.
Boats and Fates
| ship | Keel laying | Launch | in service | comment |
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| Gavriil | 11/28/1913 | 05/01/1915 | December 8, 1916 | The boat sank the British submarine HMS L55 together with the destroyer Asard on June 9, 1919 in the Gulf of Finland . On October 21, 1919, the boat sank together with the destroyers Swoboda ex - Wladimir and Konstantin on a British mine barrier while laying a defensive barrier in the Gulf of Finland. |
| Mikhail | 11/28/1913 | 05/31/1916 | - | During the evacuation voyage from the Reval base to Petrograd on November 6, 1917, the boat was severely damaged by grounding and was not repaired. In 1923 the deletion and the subsequent demolition took place. |
| Vladimir | December 7, 1913 | 08/18/1915 | 10/22/1917 | On October 21, 1919, the boat sank together with the destroyers Gawriil and Konstantin on a British mine barrier while laying a defensive barrier in the Gulf of Finland. |
| Constantine | December 7, 1913 | 06/12/1915 | 05/19/1917 | On October 21, 1919, the boat sank together with the destroyers Swoboda ex - Wladimir and Gawriil on a British mine barrier while laying a defensive barrier in the Gulf of Finland. |
| Sokol | January 18, 1915 | Summer 1917 | - | After the launch, the hull was transferred from Reval to Petrograd due to the war situation, but construction was not resumed there. In 1923 the deletion and the subsequent demolition took place. |
| Mesheslav | 08/27/1915 | Summer 1917 | - | The boat was originally stacked under the name Leitenant Lombard and was renamed Mescheslav on June 27, 1915 before it was launched . After the launch, the hull was transferred from Reval to Petrograd due to the war situation, but construction was not resumed there. In 1924 the deletion and the subsequent demolition took place. |
literature
- Harald Fock: Black journeymen. Vol. 2 Destroyers until 1914. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 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 mbH, Herford 1998, ISBN 3-7822-0207-4 .
- Robert Gardiner: Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906-1921. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis / Maryland 1985. ISBN 0-85177-245-5 .
- René Greger: The Russian fleet in the First World War 1914 - 1917. JF Lehmanns, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-469-00303-3