Monday, September 27, 2021

The Fates of the Uragan-Class Russian Monitors-- Part3

**  PERUN (Perun)--  Laid up and decommissioned in 1900 after which, she served as a pilot ship, being renamed Lotsiia (Pilot) in 1915.  She was badly damaged during the Kronstadt rebellion in 1921.  She was later flooded and deliberately run aground in 1924 and broken up by the end of 1925.

**  VESCHUN (Soothsayer)--    Laid up and decommissioned in 1900.  She was then converted into a  coal barge and renamed Barzha No. 44 and then Barzha No. 327.  She was abandoned by the Russians when they withdrew from Helsinki in April 1918 and broken up by the Finns in the 1920s.

**  KOLDUN (Sorcerer)--  Laid up and decommissioned in 1900.  She was then converted into a coal barge and renamed Barzha No. 31, then Barzha No. 50 and finally Barzha No. 323.  She was abandoned by the Russians in April 1918 and broken up by the Finns in the 1920s.

--Old B-R'er


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