Zaporozhez (ship)

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Zaporozhez
Naval Ensign of Russia.svg
Builder: Admiralty Shipyard, Nikolayev
Keel laying: May 9, 1886
Launch: May 23, 1887
Commissioning: November 9, 1888
Period of service: 1888-1911
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
1800 PSi
Speed: 13.0 kn
Range: 2100 nm at 6 kn
Crew: 180
Armament: Guns:

from 1887:

Torpedo tubes

  • 1 × 381 mm

Zaporozhez ( Russian Запорожец ) was the name of a sea-going gunboat 2nd class of the Imperial Russian Navy . The name of the ship meant "the one from Zaporizhia ".

Mission history

Commissioned as part of the fleet armament program of 1881 for the years 1882 to 1902, the Zaporozhez belonged to a class of six gunboats that were intended for service in the Russian Black Sea Fleet .

The Zaporozhez was laid on May 9, 1886 at the Admiralty Shipyard in Nikolajew and was launched on June 4, 1887. After entering service on November 9, 1888, the Zaporozhez was mainly used for diplomatic tasks and provided station service in various ports of the Black and Mediterranean . In 1891 the gunboat was used for an expedition to investigate the occurrence of hydrogen sulfide in sea water. Participants in the expedition were the biologist Daniil Kirillowitsch Sabolotny and the chemist Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Selinsky . In November 1896, the ship brought Russian naval officers to visit the Sultan of Raheita , causing tension with Italy.

In 1900 the Zaporozhez underwent a general overhaul and was used as a training ship for divers from the following year until it was decommissioned on November 2, 1911, disarmed and removed from the fleet list on November 25, 1911. It then served as a residential hulk.

Further use

Later (as early as 1912 or not until 1918 - contradicting sources) the conversion to a civilian steamship (1042 BRT, 62.5 m × 10.7 m × 4.1 m, a triple expansion machine, one screw) and the renaming to St. Nikolai . In November 1920 during the Russian Civil War , the ship was involved in the evacuation of the Belarusian troops under General Wrangel as well as civilian refugees and, like most ships in the White Fleet , was interned in Tunisia.

From 1921 the ship sailed under the Maltese flag with the name Richdale before it was sold to a Turkish shipping company in 1924, where the steamer was renamed Bozkurt . On August 2, 1926, the Bozkurt collided with the French steamer Lotus off Midilli and sank, killing eight Turkish sailors. The arrest and conviction of the French Lotus Guard in Turkey put a strain on Franco-Turkish relations and led to a legal battle before the Permanent International Court of Justice .

literature

  • А. Тарас: Корабли Российского императорского флота 1892–1917 гг. Харвест, 2000, ISBN 985-433-888-6 (A. Taras: The ships of the Imperial Russian Navy 1892-1917. Harvest, 2000).
  • Bernhard Gomm: The Russian warships 1856-1917 . Volume III: Gunboats, River Gunboats, Torpedo Boats. Self-published, Wiesbaden 1989

Web links

Commons : Gunboat Zaporozhez (1886)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catherine von Raesfeldt: Les relations entre L'Éthiopie et la Russie de 1370 à 1917 , In: Lukian Prijac (ed.): Foreign relations with Ethiopia - human and diplomatic history (from its origins to present) , page 351. LIT Verlag Münster 2015