Friday, September 24, 2021

The Fates of the Uragan-Class Monitors-- Part 1

From the 6 September 2019 Wargaming  Miscellany site "The Russian Monitor Strelets."

URAGAN (HURRICANE)

Laid up and decommissioned in 1900.

TIFON  (TYPHOON)

Decommissioned in 1900.  Hulked and served as a mine depot from 1909 and broken up in the 1920s.

STRELETS  (MUSKETEER)

Laid up in 1900.    Hulked and renamed the Plavmasterskaia No. 1, and served as a floating workshop until 1955.  Her hull still remains afloat in Kronstadt.

EDINOROG (UNICORN)

Laid up 1900.  She was hulked , renamed Blokshiv No. 4, and served as a mine depot from 1912.  She was abandoned by the Russians when they withdrew from Helsinki in April 1918, but she was later returned by the Finns.

The ship was renamed  as Blokshiv No. 2 in 1932 and survived World War II.  She was renamed again in 1949 and became the BSh-2, an abbreviated form of Blokshiv No. 2.  She was stricken in 1957 and thought to have been handed over to the Kronstadt Yacht Club for use as a storage barge.  Her ultimate fate is unknown.

--Old B-RussMonitor


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