Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Rasha ita ce ƙasa ta biyu, bayan Burtaniya, don gina jiragen ruwa na jirgin ruwa na torpedo (TBDs), suna dogara da na farko akan ƙirar Yarrow. "Sokol", wanda aka gina wa Rasha ta Yarrow Shipbuilders na Burtaniya, an saita shi a 1894 kuma an kammala shi a watan Janairun 1895; yana da tsawon ƙafa 190, ya kawar da tan 220, kuma ya sami saurin sama da 30 a lokacin gwajinsa. "Sokol" ya biyo bayan 26 irin wannan TBDs da aka gina a cikin tashar jiragen ruwa na Rasha tsakanin 1896 da 1903. Wannan jerin farko na 'classic' jiragen ruwa an shirya su ne a matsayin jiragen ruwa na torpedo ("minonosets"), sa'an nan kuma daga bisani aka sake rarraba su a matsayin masu hallaka ("eskadrennyi minonosets") a 1907. An gina masu hallaka Pacific a Saint Petersburg, an kai su a cikin sassan ta hanyar jirgin kasa zuwa Port Arthur kuma an tattara su. Daga baya sun shiga cikin Yaƙin Russo-Japan na 1904<unk>1905; waɗanda suka tsere daga Port Arthur daga baya sun yi aiki a cikin Jirgin ruwan Siberian. Jirgin ruwan Baltic ya shiga cikin Yaƙin Duniya na, Yaƙin Rasha (1917<unk>1923) da Yakin Finnish
(1918) a matsayin minesweepers da avisos. Jirgin ruwa na Black Sea ya shiga cikin yakin duniya na farko da yakin basasa na Rasha.