Admiral Spiridov class monitor


Admiral Spiridov at anchor
Class overview
Operators:  Russian Navy
Preceded by: Admiral Lazarev class
Succeeded by: Petr Veliky
Built: 1867–70
Completed: 2
Scrapped: 2
General characteristics
Type: Monitor
Displacement: 3,925 long tons (3,988 t)
Length: 254 ft 5 in (77.5 m)
Beam: 43 ft (13.1 m)
Draft: 20 ft 5 in (6.2 m)
Installed power: 2,030 ihp (1,510 kW)
Propulsion: 1 shaft, 1 Horizonal direct-action steam engine
4 rectangular boilers
Speed: 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 260 officers and crewmen
Armament: 2 × 2 - 9-inch (229 mm) Smoothbore guns
Armor: Belt: 6 in (152 mm)
Gun turrets: 6–7 in (152–178 mm)

The Admiral Spiridov class was a pair of monitors built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the late 1860s.

Pennant
number
Name Hull builder Ordered Laid down Launched Accepted
into service
Commissioned Estimated
Admiral Spiridov
Admiral Chichagov

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