Sister ship was the Illmarinen. She was ordered in 1927, laid down in August 1929 at the Crichton-Vulcan shipyard in Turku, launched 29 April 1932 and commissioned 28 December 1932. With a displacement of 3,900 tons and dimensions 93,0 x 16,864 x 5,0m. Unsuitable for open sea operations while both ships were volatile and rolled too much. Due to the combination of the high conning tower and a minimum depth keel the ships were wide and slow. The 4 Diesel-Electric power train Krupp engines provided 4,800 hp allowing a speed of 14,5 knots. Her range was 700 nautical miles. The crew numbered 410 men. She was armed with 2x2 254mm Bofors guns, 4x2 105mm Bofors guns, 4x40mm Vickers guns and 2x8 20mm Madsens guns.
She was after the Second World War handed over to the Sovjet Union (20 May 1947) and added as the Vyborg to the Baltic Fleet. And served for a period of 6 years at Porkkala nicknamed Vanya by her crew. In the fifties was she modernized and was for some time stationed at Tallinn. Despite negotiations after 1958 when there were plans to break up to return her to Finland was she broken up at Leningrad in 1966.
