BAP Almirante Guise

History
Russian Empire
Name:	Avtroil
Builder:	Reval Shipbuilding Company, Tallinn
Launched:	13 January 1915
Completed:	1917
Captured:	1918 by United Kingdom
Estonia
Name:	EML Lennuk
Acquired:	1918 from British
Fate:	Sold to Peru, 1933
Peru
Name:	Almirante Guise
Commissioned:	1933
Fate:	Scrapped in 1954
General characteristics
Class and type:	Izyaslav-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,785 tons
Length:	105.0 m (344.5 ft)
Beam:	9.53 m (31.3 ft)
Draught:	3.60 m (11.8 ft)
Propulsion:	A.E.G. Curtis turbines; 24,000 kW (32,000 shp), Oil fuel: 450 tons
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h)
Range:	2,400 mi (3,900 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement:	142
Armament:	5 × 102 mm (4 in)/60 guns 2 × 20 mm AA guns 3 × machine guns 9 × 457 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes in 3 triple deck mountings Designed to carry and lay 80 mines

BAP Almirante Guise was a destroyer in service with the Peruvian Navy from 1933 to 1954. She was a rebuilt type of the Russian Izyaslav class. Originally named Avtroil while in Russian service, she was later renamed Lennuk. The vessel was built at Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand in Le Havre.

Service history

Following the collapse of the Russian Empire and the intervention into the Russian Civil War by the Allies, Avtroil was captured by British cruisers and destroyers in the Baltic in December 1918. The ship was transferred to Estonia, from whom she was purchased by the Peruvian Navy in 1933. The ship was renamed Almirante Guise and served with the Peruvian navy until she was finally scrapped in 1954.

References

Media related to BAP Almirante Guise at Wikimedia Commons

• Jane's Fighting Ships 1938, p. 388.