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Name: ILIA MUROMETS or ILYA MUROMETS
Type: Ice Breaker
Launched: 25/11/1915
Completed: 12/1915
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 994
Dimensions: 1664grt, 672nrt, 200.1 x 50.5 x 18.1ft
Engines: 2 x T3cyl (21.5, 35.5 & 58 x 36ins), 721nhp
Engines by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Propulsion: 2 x Screws
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
12/1915 Government of Russia
04/1922 French Navy; renamed POLLUX
03/07/1940 British Royal Navy
05/07/1946 French Navy
1951 Renamed TELEMAQUE
1964 Broken up
Comments: 1917: Armed with 4 x 1 x 100mm cannons and 2 x 1 x 37mm AA guns
29/12/1920: Interned at Bizerta pending sale in 1922
1927: Rebuilt as a minelayer with capacity for 236 mines
1940: Seized by UK & used as a radar training ship
1951: Hulked
22/07/1963: Deleted from Navy list
1964: Broken up at Lorient


Above photo as POLLUX is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as POLLUX is courtesy of Jean Labayle-Couhat