Finnish gunboat Turunmaa
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Turunmaa's sister ship Karjala |
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Career | |
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Name: | Turunmaa |
Commissioned: | 1916 (Finnish Navy) |
Fate: | Scrapped in 1953 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Gorlitsa class gunboat |
Displacement: | 342 tons |
Length: | 50 metres (160 ft) |
Beam: | 6.9 metres (23 ft) |
Draft: | 2.9 metres (9.5 ft) |
Propulsion: | two boilers, 860 kW |
Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Range: | 700 nautical miles (1,300 km) at 15 knots |
Complement: | 1930: 48 1942:63 |
Armament: | two 75mm/50 one 40mm AA three 20mm AA two DP mortars 30 mines |
Turunmaa was a Finnish gunboat, built in 1916. She served in the Finnish Navy during World War II.
While in Russian service (1916-1917) the ship had been named both Orlan and Tshirok. Turunmaa was built in Helsinki for the Imperial Russian Navy but was taken over by Finnish troops in the Finnish Civil War. The ship was used as a training ship for Finnish sea cadets during peacetime.
[edit] Ships of the class
Country | Name | Year |
Finland | Turunmaa | 1916 |
Karjala | 1918 | |
Poland | General Haller | 1916 |
Komendant Piłsudski | 1917 |