Jäämeri was a liaison vessel, mail, passenger, cargo and pilots. not a guard boat.lupodimare89 wrote:The other details concern naval encounters in Petsamo during 1939.
Previously it has been wrote here how the two main local Finnish guardboats were Jäämeri and Turja: both scuttled with no contact with enemy.
Mikko Uola at his book Petsamo 1939-1944 mentions that after the failure of evacuation (liaision vessel Jäämeri didn't manage to arrive on time) of the Pummanki village at Kalastajansaarento (Rybachi peninsula) the civilians decided to try to flee from the Soviet shelling and evacuate themselves to Norway with four of their motor boats. One boat managed to get through. The boats Soviet Navy captured were left to drift away empty.Digging through Russian sources however there are two cases of meetings/seizure of intact(?) boats:
1) On 30 November 1939. Soviet auxiliary mineswepers Tszcz-895 and Tszcz-897 intercepted and captured two small motorboats that were evacuating civilians from Rybachi peninsula (no exact number of people present, but included women and children).
Trawler Syväri (Suomi-14)2) On 1 December 1939, the same Tszcz-895 and Tszcz-897, in addition of the more armed guard vessel/torpedo boat Gruza after receiving from shore (and firing back) found what's described as an "auxiliary minesweeper" named "Suomi-14" (=Суоми-14). Another report say it was seized (no word of crew, maybe it was abandoned intact?). No idea if it was really a small minesweeper boat, maybe it was a trawler?
According to Uola, taken to Finnish Defence Force use in autumn-39 and not demolished because of the already weak boiler.
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