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The following information extracted from the Russian River register, river Amur (1906-1915), complete with errors:
1. Name: PERVY KVGD (translates as FIRST CER); Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd 1897 2. Name: VTOROI KVGD (translates as SECOND CER); Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd 1897 3. Name: TRETIY KVGD (translates as THIRD CER); Builder: William Dobson & Co 1898 4. Name: CHETVERTY KVGD (translates as QUARTERS OF THE CER); Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd 1897 5. Name: PYATY KVGD (translates as FIVE CER); Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd 1897 6. Name: SHESTOI KVGD (translates as SIXTH CER); Builder: Builder: William Dobson & Co 1898 7. Name: SEDMOI KVGD (translates as SEVENTH CER); Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd 1897 8. Name: VOSMOI KVGD (translates as EIGHTH CER); Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd 1897 9. Name: DEVYATIY KVGD (translates as NINTH CER); Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd 1897 10. Name: DESYATIY KVGD (translates as TENTH CER); Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd 1897 11. Name: ODINATZATIY KVGD (translates as ELEVENTH CER); Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd 1897 12. Name: DVENADTZATIY KVGD (translates as TWELFTH CER); Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd 1897 13. Name: TRINADTZATIY KVGD (translates as TRINADTZATIY KVGD); Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd 1897 14. Name: CHETIYRNATZATIY KVGD (translates as FOURTEENTH CER); Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd 1897 15. Name: PYATNATZATIY KVGD (translates as FIFTEEN CER); Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd 1897 Operating area: River Amur and River Songhua (Russian: Sungari) |
Above map of the Amur River basin is courtesy of Wikipedia
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Further history:
1897-1910: Chinese Eastern Railway Co, Russian flag 1900-1918: #6, #9 patrol vessel armed with 1 x 37mm Hotchkiss naval gun, Chinese Eastern Railway Co, Russian flag ~1911-1913: #10, #13, #14, #15, sold and renamed. Russian flag; #10 - SVYATOGOR; #13 - OLEG; #14 - AZOV; #15- MITRYDAT 1911-1920: #1-9, #11, #12, Chinese Eastern Railway Co, Russian flag ~1920-1925: All 15 vessels near Harbin in Manchuria. Flag Russian Empire (not U.S.S.R.); Area: River Songhua only. 1920: Vessel #2 boiler exploded, converted to a river barge at Harbin, Manchuria. No later history. 1926: Surviving 14 vessels, Chinese flag and all renamed. Chinese names unknown. Area: River Songhua only. 1929: Sino-Soviet conflict; 6 vessels armed as river gunboats. Chinese names unknown, 2 armed vessels were war loss. 1935: Surviving 12 vessels, flag Manchukuo (a puppet state of Japan); renamed again. Chinese names unknown. 08/1945: Soviet-Japanese War: 6 vessels war loss. 09/1945: 6 vessel (unknown from #1, 3-15 KVGD) at war prizes. Owner: Soviet Government. U.S.S.R. flag. Temporary names: T-21, T-76, T-80, T-86, T-90 and unknown "vessel taken to Habarovsk". "T" - "Tropheiny" (~captured) Vessels area: River Amur No later history |
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