Finnish gunboat Hämeenmaa

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Career
Name: Hämeenmaa
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

Hämeenmaa was a gunboat 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

Flag of Russia Russia
  • Korshun (Pioner), built 1916
  • Kobtchnik, built 1916
Flag of Finland Finland
  • Uusimaa, built 1917
  • Hämeenmaa, built 1917
Flag of Chile Chile
  • Colocolo, built 1919
  • Leucoton, built 1919
  • Elicura, built 1919
  • Orompello, built 1919
The sister ship Uusimaa
The sister ship Uusimaa
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