| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Operators: | Russian Navy |
| Preceded by: | Petropavlovsk |
| Succeeded by: | Pervenetz class |
| Built: | 1861–65 |
| Completed: | 1 |
| Scrapped: | 1 |
| Career (Russian Empire) | |
| Name: | Sevastopol (Russian: Севастополь) |
| Namesake: | Siege of Sevastopol |
| Operator: | Imperial Russian Navy |
| Builder: | Kronstadt Shipyard, Kronstadt |
| Laid down: | 16 March 1862[Note 1] |
| Launched: | 12 August 1864 |
| Completed: | 9 July 1865 |
| Struck: | 11 October 1886 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1887 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Armored frigate |
| Displacement: | 6,275 long tons (6,376 t) |
| Length: | 314 ft 10 in (96.0 m) |
| Beam: | 51 ft 1 in (15.6 m) |
| Draft: | 26 ft 4 in (8.0 m) |
| Installed power: | 3,090 ihp (2,300 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, 1 Horizontal return connecting rod steam engine Rectangular boilers |
| Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement: | 607 officers and crewmen |
| Armament: |
18 × 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 Sevastopol was ordered as a wooden frigate, but was converted while under construction to an armored frigate for the Imperial Russian Navy in the early 1860s.
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