Labor (gunboat)

Laid down in May 1932 in the workshops of the Pinsk military port for the Pinsk river flotilla of the Polish Navy, launched in 1933. She entered service on July 15, 1933 , served in the Pinsk Flotilla of the Polish Navy in Pripyat .

Artillery - Poland : a in the turret, a 37-mm gun of the 1918 model ; USSR : 2 76-mm SPV cannon in the turret , 76-mm Lender anti-aircraft gun on the open deck. Anti-aircraft guns - Poland : 7.92-mm machine gun Hotchkiss , USSR : 3 Maxim machine guns ^[1] .

1 6-cylinder diesel engine Glennifer (Glenifer) 120 hp and 1 propeller. Speed ​​5.6 knots (10 km / h).

In September 1939, at the beginning of the Second World War, at the height of the German invasion and the Soviet campaign in Poland, headed for Pinsk, but did not make it because of the blown-up railway bridge over Pripyat. The crew flooded the gunboat as the Red Army approached on September 18, 1939 ^[2] on the Strumien River.

Soviet divers soon discovered the canoes. October 24, 1939 she was enrolled in the first Dnieper, and then the Pinsk military flotilla. On November 3, 1939, it was lifted from the bottom of the river and towed to Pinsk for repair. The boat was named "Labor". On July 17, 1940, the cannon "Trudovaya" officially became part of the Pinsk military flotilla ^{[2] [1]} .

At the beginning of World War II led the fighting on the rivers Pripyat and Dnieper. Up to his death, he had regular malfunctions with the engine ^[1] . On the night of August 31, 1941, at a breakthrough from the area of ​​the village of Domantovo (now flooded by the Kiev reservoir ) to Kiev past the left-bank village of Okuninovo (now flooded by the Kiev reservoir ), where the 6th German army 's headquarters was at that time, the gunner came under strong the fire and sank ^[3] . Other PVF ships that were part of the Berezinsky and Pripyatsky detachments of river ships participated in this operation.

According to another version, during a breakthrough , without providing fire support to other participating ships, the commander of the canlodka, Lieutenant A.E. he gave the order to drown the locks of the guns, and to leave the team with a personal weapon to leave the fully combat-ready ship. This was the reason for the accusation of the commander and military commissar P Semechatchenko of evading battle ^[1] . In general, this ship acted less noticeably than the same type canor ship “Belorus” .

The gunboat was excluded from the lists of the Navy ships on September 22, 1941 ^[1] . On April 18, 1944, it was lifted and towed to Kiev, but the "Labor" was no longer subject to recovery. As a result, a decision was made to cut the gunboat into metal ^{[2] [1]} .

• Pinsk military flotilla
• Belorus (gunboat)

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• Type "Zaradna" - 2 units
• The ships on which the Dnieper fought
• Losses of vessels of the Pinsk flotilla. Navy.su
• Wielka Encyklopedia Uzbrojenia 1918-1939