Finnish gunboat Uusimaa

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Career
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
Flag of Russia Russia Korshun (Pioner) 1916
Kobtchnik 1916
Flag of Finland Finland Uusimaa 1917
Hämeenmaa 1917
Flag of Chile Chile Colocolo 1919
Leucoton 1919
Elicura 1919
Orompello 1919
Uusimaa
Uusimaa
Uusimaa or Hämeenmaa
Uusimaa or Hämeenmaa
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