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Saturday, 17 November 2018

Russia modernizing Terets type gunboats according to the magazine Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens dated 1910 No. 2


An item reported that the boilers of the Russian Terez type were to be replaced and the engines thoroughly modernized. It seemed that at the same occasion just like the Uralez earlier the armament was to changed into 2-15 cm L/45 guns, 1-12cm L/45 guns, 2-7,5cm, guns, 4-4,7cm guns, 1-3,7cm gun and a machinegun.(1)

Note
1. Laid down at Russischen Gesellschaft für Dampfschiffahrt und Handel, Odessa, Russian Empire (nowadays Ukraine) on 9 May 1886, launched on 29 August 1887, commissioned on 9 November 1888 and stricken in 1931 followed by breaking up.