Built as a minelayer on the Baltic Dockyard, St Petersburg for the Imperial Russian Navy.
Launched under the name AMUR.
Displacement 3.608 tons, dim. 98.1 x 14 x 4.5m. (draught).
Powered by triple expansion steam engines 4.700 hp., speed 17 knots.
Bunker capacity 580 tons coal.
Armament 5 – 4.7 inch, 2 – 12pdrs.
Carried 360 mines.
Crew 230.
1907 Completed.
After completing a unit of the Russian Baltic Fleet.
Not much is known on this vessel, most probably during World War I used for laying mines in the Baltic.
Later in use as a school ship.
1940 Towed to Tallin, and there in use as a mine depot ship.
28 August 1941 by her own crew scuttled, to avoid that she was falling in the hands of the German forces.
After World War II salvaged and scrapped.
Source: Jane’s Fighting Ships 1914. Navicula Enzyklopädie der Marttimen Philately.