Russian ironclad Kreml


Half-sister Pervenets at anchor
Career (Russian Empire)
Name: Kreml (Russian: Кремль)
Namesake: Kremlin
Operator: Imperial Russian Navy
Ordered: 20 April 1863
Builder: Semiannikov & Poletika, St. Petersburg
Cost: 898,000 rubles (hull and machinery only)
Laid down: 23 December 1863[Note 1]
Launched: 26 August 1865
Reclassified: Coast defense ironclad, 13 February 1892
Struck: 12 October 1905
Fate: Sold for scrap, 8 September 1908
General characteristics (as completed)
Class and type: Pervenets-class broadside ironclad
Displacement: 3,412 long tons (3,467 t)
Length: 221 ft (67.4 m)
Beam: 53 ft (16.2 m)
Draft: 15 ft (4.6 m)
Installed power: 913 ihp (681 kW)
Propulsion: 1 shaft
1 2-cylinder Horizontal trunk steam engine
4 rectangular fire-tube boilers
Speed: 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Range: 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km; 2,300 mi)
Complement: 430 officers and crewmen
Armament: 17 × 7.72-inch (196 mm) 60-pounder smoothbore guns
Armor: Belt: 4.5 in (114 mm)
Deck: 1.14 in (29 mm)
Bulkheads: 4.5 in (114 mm)

The Russian ironclad Kreml was a Pervenets-class broadside ironclad built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the mid-1860s.

Notes

  1. ^ All dates used in this article are New Style

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