Finnish gunboat Hämeenmaa
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| Career |  |
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| Type: | Gun boat |
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| Laid down: | |
| Launched: | |
| Commissioned: | 1917 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1953 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 400 tons |
| Length: | 52.0 m |
| Beam: | 7.5 m |
| Draught: | 3.4 m |
| Propulsion: | 2 × boilers 1,400 kW |
| Speed: | 15 knots |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 3 + 70 |
| Armament: | 2 × 102 mm Obuchov 1 × 40 mm AA 1 × 20 mm AA 3 × MG 12 mines 1944: 2 × 105 mm 2 × 40 mm AA 2 × 20 mm AA 3 × MG 12 mines |
Hämeenmaa 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 Pingvin, later, in German service, her name was Wulf. Finally the Germans handed her over to the Finns in 1920, who renamed her Hämeenmaa. After WW2, she served as a trawler in the Baltic Sea. She was scrapped in 1953.
[edit] Ships of the class
| Country | Name | Year | |
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Russia | Korshun (Pioner) | 1916 |
| Kobtchnik | 1916 | ||
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Finland | Uusimaa | 1917 |
| Hämeenmaa | 1917 | ||
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Chile | Colocolo | 1919 |
| Leucoton | 1919 | ||
| Elicura | 1919 | ||
| Orompello | 1919 | ||
