Kubanez

Builder:	ROPiT (РОПиТ), Odessa
Keel laying:	April 9, 1886
Launch:	March 28, 1887
Commissioning:	August 8, 1887
Period of service:	1887-1923
Displacement:	1280 t
Length:	67.2 m
Width:	12.2 m
Draft:	3.7 m
Drive:	Sails, two horizontal composite steam engines, 4 flame tube boilers, 2 screws, 1819 PSi
Speed:	13.0 kn
Range:	2100 nm at 6 kn
Crew:	180 from 1914: 137
Armament:	Guns: from 1887: 2 × 8-inch M1885 cannon 1 × 152 mm L / 35 cannon M1877 6 × 47 mm 1 × 37 mm Torpedo tubes 1 × 381 mm after rearmament: 2 × 152 mm L / 45 cannon M1892 1 × 120mm L / 45 cannon 2 × 75mm L / 50 4 × 47 mm 2 × MG

Kubanez (Кубанец) was the name of a sea-going gunboat of the Imperial Russian Navy . Commissioned in 1887, it was sold in 1923 and scrapped after 1945. The name of the boat corresponds to the Russian name for a resident of the Kuban area and the Kuban Cossacks .

The boat was procured as part of the fleet armament program for the years 1882-1902. It was intended for service in the Russian Black Sea Fleet .

The Kubanez was laid on April 9, 1886 at the shipyard of the Russian Society for Steam Shipping and Trade ( Русское общество пароходства и торговли ) in Odessa . Like all boats intended for service in the Black Sea Fleet, it was built in a Russian shipyard, while the boats intended for service in the Baltic Sea and the Far East were built in foreign shipyards. The launch took place on March 28, 1887. The boat was put into service on August 8, 1887 after it had been equipped. After commissioning, the Kubanez was assigned to the Russian Mediterranean Squadron and provided station service in various ports on the Mediterranean .

Gunboat Kubanez after modernization

In 1900 the boat underwent a major overhaul and was used as a training boat from the following year. The years of use of the boat were unspectacular at first. The next major overhaul followed in 1912, which also involved replacing the armament. On November 16, 1913, the boat took part in the rescue of the crew of the Uralez gunboat that ran aground off Sevastopol . The cutter that was used overturned and six Kubanez sailors were killed.

During the First World War , the Kubanez was initially assigned to the coastal defense forces of the Black Sea. The boat was involved in repelling the attack by Turkish naval forces on the port of Odessa . From August 1916 the Terez belonged to the Russian Danube Flotilla . The main task here was fire support for Russian troops on land .

On January 18, 1918, the boat went over to the side of the Soviet Russian troops. During the occupation of the Black Sea ports by German troops , it was taken over by them in Sevastopol on May 1, 1918. The boat was assigned to the Ukrainian fleet. After the Germans withdrew, it then fell into the hands of the British-French intervention forces on December 14, 1918. On May 14, 1919, the boat was maneuvered into the port of Novorossiysk . When they withdrew from Temryuk on August 23, 1920, the White Guard troops sank the Kubanez .

In 1921 the Kubanez was raised, repaired, renamed Krasny Kubanez (Красный Кубанец, German: Red Kubankosake) and put back into service. On December 17, 1923 the armament of the boat was disarmed and the Krasny Kubanez was handed over to the EPRON as an auxiliary ship. In 1928, the State Fishing Syndicate (Госрыбсиндикат) bought the boat. After 1945 the ship was scrapped, but the exact date can no longer be determined.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see Н. Новиков: Операции флота против берега на Черном море в 1914–1917 гг. Воениздат НКО СССР 1937, ISBN 5-902236-07-X . (N. Novikow: The naval operations against the coasts of the Black Sea 1914-1917. Vojenizdat NKO SSSR 1937.)
2. ↑ see Д. Козлов: Флот в румынской кампании 1916–1917 годов. 2003, ISBN 5-902236-08-8 . (D. Koslow: The fleet in the Romanian operation )
3. ↑ see information about the boat on the Black Sea Fleet page

Web links

Commons : Gunboat Kubanez  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Information about the boat on the Black Sea Fleet website (Russian)

literature

• А. Тарас: Корабли Российского императорского флота 1892–1917 гг. Харвест, 2000 (A. Taras: The Ships of the Imperial Russian Navy 1892–1917. Harvest, 2000.) ISBN 985-433-888-6 .
• Г. Лорей: Операции германо-турецких морских сил в 1914–1918 гг. 1934, ISBN 5-89173-207-6 . (G. Lorei: The operations of the German-Turkish naval forces 1914–1918. ) (Russian)
• Флот в Белой борьбе. Центрполиграф, 2002, ISBN 5-9524-0028-0 ( The Fleet in the White Battle. ) (Russian)
• В. Доценко (Составитель): Гражданская война в России: Черноморский флот. ACT, 2002, ISBN 5-17-012874-6 (W. Donezko (Ed.): The Civil War in Russia: The Black Sea Fleet. ) (Russian)
• Н. Новиков: Операции флота против берега на Черном море в 1914–1917 гг. Воениздат НКО СССР, 1937, ISBN 5-902236-07-X (N. Novikov: The operations of the navy against the Black Sea coasts 1914–1917. Vojenizdat NKO SSSR) (Russian)
• Д. Козлов: Флот в румынской кампании 1916–1917 годов. 2003, ISBN 5-902236-08-8 (D. Koslow: The fleet in the Romanian campaign 1916-1917. ) (Russian)