Russian cruiser Novik (1900)
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| Career |   |
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| Built: | Schichau shipyards, Germany |
| Ordered: | 1898 |
| Laid down | August 1900 |
| Launched: | 1901 |
| Completed: | to Japan 1904 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, April 1 1913 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3.080 tons |
| Length: | 110.0 meters at waterline |
| Beam: | 12.2 meters |
| Draught: | 5.0 meters |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft reciprocating, 12 boilers; 18,000 HP |
| Speed: | 25 knots |
| Fuel: | 500 tons coal 5000 nm @ 10 knots; 500 nm @ 20 knots |
| Complement: | 340 |
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| Armor: | 50 mm deck armor; 28 mm conning tower |
The Suzuya was a protected cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy, originally built for the Imperial Russian Navy as the Novik, by Schichau shipyards in Elbing near Danzig, Germany. It performed heroically various engagements in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, and was finally captured by the Japanese Navy after running aground in Sakhalin after the Battle of the Yellow Sea.
After the Russo-Japanese War, it was commissioned it into the Imperial Japanese Navy as the 2nd class cruiser Suzuya on 20 August 1906. It was re-classified as a 2nd class Coastal Defense Vessel on 28 August 1912, and was declared obsolete and scrapped on 01 April 1913.
It should not be confused with the much larger Pacific War era heavy cruiser Suzuya.
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