Soviet gunboat Krasnoye Znamya

The Imperial Russian gunboat Khrabryy
History
Russian Empire
NameKhabry
BuilderAdmiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg
Laid down15 December 1894
Launched9 November 1895
Completed10 September 1897
History
Soviet Union
Commissioned29 January 1918
Recommissioned17 September 1944
RenamedKrasnoye Znamya, 31 December 1922
Reclassified
Stricken20 June 1960
FateSunk, 16 November 1942, raised 13 November 1943
General characteristics (as rebuilt 1937–1939)
Class & typeKrasnoye Znamya-class gunboat
Displacement1,530 t (1,510 long tons) (standard)
Length69.26 m (227 ft 3 in)
Beam12.7 m (41 ft 8 in)
Draft3.9 m (12 ft 10 in)
Installed power
Propulsion2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Range1,100 nautical miles (2,000 km; 1,300 mi) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement201
Armament
Armor

Krasnoye Znamya (Красное Знамя, Red Banner, ex-Khrabryy) was a Soviet gunboat. The ship had been built in the 1890s as the Khrabry (Храбрый, Brave) for the Imperial Russian Navy. She was completed in 1897 and assigned to the Baltic Fleet. During the First World War, the ship participated in the Battle of Moon Sound in 1917. Her crew joined the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution that same year and she was commissioned into the Soviet Navy in early 1918. Khabry was renamed Krasnoye Znamya in 1922. She was rebuilt in 1937–1939. The gunboat was sunk in the harbor of Lavansaari in the Gulf of Finland in 1942 during an attack by Finnish MTBs. The ship was salvaged the following year and recommissioned in 1944.