| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Operators: | Russian Navy |
| Preceded by: | None |
| Succeeded by: | Sevastopol |
| Built: | 1861–67 |
| Completed: | 1 |
| Scrapped: | 1 |
| Career (Russian Empire) | |
| Name: | Petropalovsk (Russian: Петропавловск) |
| Namesake: | Siege of Petropavlovsk |
| Operator: | Imperial Russian Navy |
| Builder: | New Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg |
| Laid down: | 9 September 1861[Note 1] |
| Launched: | 1865 |
| Completed: | 16 August 1867 |
| Struck: | 7 January 1892 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1892 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Armored frigate |
| Displacement: | 6,040 long tons (6,137 t) |
| Length: | 313 ft 4 in (95.5 m) |
| Beam: | 56 ft 2 in (17.1 m) |
| Draft: | 25 ft 3 in (7.7 m) |
| Installed power: | 2,460 ihp (1,830 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, 1 Horizontal return connecting rod steam engine Rectangular boilers |
| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement: | 680 officers and crewmen |
| Armament: |
21 × 8-inch (203 mm) Rifled breech loaders |
| Armor: | Belt: 3–4.5 in (76–114 mm) Battery: 4.5 in (114 mm) |
The Russian ironclad Petropavlovsk was ordered as a wooden frigate, but was converted while under construction to an armored frigate for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1860s.
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