Gogland class

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Class details
Ship type: destroyer
Shipyard Ziese-Mühlgrabenwerft (Мюльграбенская верфь), Riga
Period of service: not put into service
Units: 9
Technical specifications
Length: 99.3 m
Width: 9.5 m
Draft: 3.1 m
Displacement : Construction: 1,350 t
maximum approx. 1,500 t
Drive:
Speed: 35.0 kn
Range: 1,480 nm at 21 kn
350 nm at 32 kn
Fuel supply:
Armament:
  • 4 × 102 mm L / 60 guns
  • 1 × 37 mm Flak L / 67
  • 2 × 7.62 mm machine guns
  • 9 × torpedo tubes (3 × 3) Ø 457 mm
  • 80 mines
Crew: 147 men

The Gogland class ( Russian Гогланд for Gogland d. I. The island highlands in the Gulf of Finland) was a class of Russian destroyers of the Baltic fleet of Tsarist Russia, based on the design of the prototype boat Novik , following the approval in June 1912 for the Baltic Sea Small shipbuilding program ordered in 1912 at Baltic Sea shipyards and should be built there.

draft

The design of this class is somewhat inconsistent. The order for the ordered boats was given to the Schichau shipyard in Gdansk because of the cheapest offer (around ¼ cheaper - that was 0.5 million rubles - than the offers from Russian shipyards). Linked to this, however, was the establishment of a shipyard on Russian soil. The owner of Schichau, Carl Ziese , decided on the Riga location and founded the Ziese-Mühlgraben shipyard there - with the prospect of further orders for the lucrative Russian armaments market. Most of the equipment, such as boilers, turbines, cast parts and the like, should be prefabricated in the main plant in Gdansk.

At the beginning of the considerations, the design only provided two 102-mm guns and twelve 457-mm torpedo tubes. After a reassessment, however, it was decided to increase the artillery component to last a total of four 102 mm guns - with a simultaneous reduction in torpedo equipment to three triple torpedo tube sets.

Modified draft

After the outbreak of World War I, work on the boats that had been started could only be continued very slowly, as many of the pieces of equipment that were in work at the main factory in Danzig were missing from the now hostile German Reich. As early as the summer of 1915, the worsening military situation of the Russian Empire led to the occupation of large parts of the Baltic region by German troops, so that the shipyard in Riga was soon in close proximity to the front. In addition, the shipyard was placed under state administration in June 1915. Because of these circumstances and the threat, the hulls of the four most advanced boats were transferred to Petrograd on June 6, 1916, to the Ust-Ischora shipyard of the Petrograd metal factory. At the suggestion of the Admiral's staff, the Shipbuilding Headquarters redesigned the boats into fast fleet minesweepers. The external shape and the propulsion system remained unchanged, but the displacement increased to 1550 tons, while the speed fell to 32 knots. In addition, an additional 102 mm gun came on board, while the 37 mm weapon was exchanged for two 57 mm flak and a torpedo tube set was omitted. The rest of the five boats were only being built. In that case, the order was canceled and the material that had already been processed was transferred to the Russian-Baltic Works in Reval (Tallinn) in December 1916. They received the order to use them to complete five boats based on the design of the Gawriil class under construction there .

Immediately after the start of the war, the contracting Schichau shipyard offered the Reichsmarineamt ( Blohm & Voss in Hamburg and AG Vulcan in Stettin) nine torpedo boat destroyers based on the plans for the Gogland class with equipment parts that were already completed or in process. In contrast to the other two shipyards, this was rejected in 1915 for unknown reasons. However, the turbines and boilers that had been in production to date were built into the second series of destroyers built by Blohm & Voss, the boats B 109 to B 112.

Naming

The boats of this class were named after famous battle victories that were important for Russian history.

Boats and Fates

   ship Keel laying Launch in service comment
Gogland 12/02/1913 ? - When all construction work was stopped in July 1915, the hull was 21.6% complete. The material was transferred to Petrograd on June 6, 1916 and processed there as a rapid mine sweeper according to the modified draft.
Grengamn 12/02/1913 ? - When all construction work was stopped in July 1915, the hull was 35% complete. The material was transferred to Petrograd on June 6, 1916 and processed there as a rapid mine sweeper according to the modified draft.
Kulm 12.1914 ? - When all construction work was stopped in July 1915, the hull was 16.8% complete. The material was transferred to Petrograd on June 6, 1916 and processed there as a rapid mine sweeper according to the modified draft.
Patras 12.1914 ? - When all construction work was stopped in July 1915, the hull was 8% complete. The material was transferred to Petrograd on June 6, 1916 and processed there as a rapid mine sweeper according to the modified draft.
Rymnik 1915 - - The construction of the boat was stopped during the war. The unfinished hull was destroyed on September 2, 1917.
Chios 1915 - - The construction of the boat was stopped during the war. The unfinished hull was destroyed on September 2, 1917.
Smolensk 1915 - - The construction of the boat was stopped during the war. The unfinished hull was destroyed on September 2, 1917.
Stirs 1915 - - The construction of the boat was stopped during the war. The unfinished hull was destroyed on September 2, 1917.
Tenedos 1915 - - The construction of the boat was stopped during the war. The unfinished hull was destroyed on September 2, 1917.

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 .
  • Robert Gardiner: Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946. Naval Institute Press, London 1980. ISBN 0-85177-146-7 .
  • René Greger: The Russian fleet in the First World War 1914–1917. JF Lehmanns, Munich 1970, ISBN
  • Michael J. Whitley: Destroyer in World War II. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01426-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gomm, Bernhard: The Russian warships 1856-1917. Vol. IV. Torpedo cruisers, destroyers, submarines. Wiesbaden 2000 p. 80