Finnish gunboat Hämeenmaa
Hämeenmaa or her sister ship Uusimaa | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Finland | |
| Name | Hämeenmaa |
| Builder | Kone ja Silta Oy, Helsinki, Finland |
| Commissioned | 1917 (Finnish Navy) |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1953 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Uusimaa-class gunboat |
| Displacement | 400 tons |
| Length | 52 m (170 ft 7 in) |
| Beam | 7.5 m (24 ft 7 in) |
| Draft | 3.4 m (11 ft 2 in) |
| Propulsion | two boilers, 1,400 shp (1,000 kW) |
| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 73 |
| Armament | In the 1920s:
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Hämeenmaa (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈhæmeːmˌmɑː]) was a gunboat that served in the Finnish Navy during World War II. She was built in 1917. As the ship had changed hands many times (along with her sister ship Uusimaa) during the turbulent last years of World War I she had been renamed many times: In Russian service, she was called Pingvin; later, in German service, her name was Wulf. Finally, in 1920, the Germans handed her over to the Finns, who renamed her Hämeenmaa. After World War II, she served as a trawler in the Baltic Sea. She was scrapped in 1953.