| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Karjala |
| Commissioned: | 1918 (Finnish Navy) |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1953 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Filin-class guard ship[1] |
| Displacement: | 342 tons |
| Length: | 50 m (160 ft) |
| Beam: | 6.9 m (23 ft) |
| Draft: | 2.9 m (9.5 ft) |
| Propulsion: | two Normand boilers, 860 kW |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Range: | 700 nautical miles (1,300 km) at 15 knots |
| Complement: | 1930: 48 1942: 63 |
| Armament: | 1939: 2 x 75 mm/50 2 x 20 mm Madsen AA 2 x machine gun 2 x DC mortar (SPH/37) 30 mines 1941: 2 x 75 mm/50 3 x 20 mm Madsen AA 1 x 12.7 mm machine gun 2 x DC mortar (SPH/37 or SPH/43) 30 mines |
Karjala (ex-Filin) was a Finnish gunboat, built in 1918 by Crichton AB in Turku. She served in the Finnish Navy during World War II. Karjala was named after the Finnic cultural region of Karelia. Like her sistership Turunmaa she served as cadet training vessel during peacetime and was nicknamed as Kurjala (place of misery) by cadets.[2]
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