Finnish gunboat Uusimaa
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| Career |  |
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| Name: | Uusimaa |
| Commissioned: | 1917 (Finnish Navy) |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1953 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 400 tons |
| Length: | 52 metres (170 ft) |
| Beam: | 7.5 metres (25 ft) |
| Draft: | 3.4 metres (11 ft) |
| Propulsion: | two boilers, 1,400 kW |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 73 |
| Armament: | two 102 mm Obuchov one 40 mm AA one 20 mm AA three MG twelve mines 1944: two 105 mm two 40 mm AA two 20 mm AA three MG twelve mines |
Uusimaa was a gun boat that served in the Finnish Navy during World War II. She was built in 1917. As the ship had changed hands many times during the turbulent last years of World War I she had been renamed many times: In Russian service, she was called Golub, later, in German service, her name was Beo. Finally the Germans handed her over to the Finns in 1920, who renamed her Uusimaa. After WW2, she served as a trawler in the Baltic Sea. She was scrapped in 1953.
[edit] Ships of the class
| Country | Name | Year |
 Russia |
Korshun (Pioner) | 1916 |
| Kobtchnik | 1916 | |
 Finland |
Uusimaa | 1917 |
| Hämeenmaa | 1917 | |
 Chile |
Colocolo | 1919 |
| Leucoton | 1919 | |
| Elicura | 1919 | |
| Orompello | 1919 |
