General-Admiral-class cruiser
![](../I/m/General-Admiral_armored_cruiser.jpg) General-Admiral |
Class overview |
Operators: |
Russian Navy |
Preceded by: |
None |
Succeeded by: |
Minin |
Built: |
1870–1877 |
In commission: |
1875–1938 |
Completed: |
2 |
Scrapped: |
2 |
General characteristics General-Admiral as completed |
Type: | Armored cruiser |
Displacement: | 5,031 long tons (5,112 t) |
Length: | 285 ft 10 in (87.1 m) |
Beam: | 48 ft (14.6 m) |
Draft: | 24 ft 5 in (7.4 m) |
Installed power: | approximately 4,772 ihp (3,558 kW) |
Propulsion: | 1 shaft, 1 Compound steam engine, 5 cylindrical water-tube boilers |
Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Range: | 5,900 nmi (10,900 km; 6,800 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement: | 482 officers and crewmen |
Armament: | 6 × 1 - 8-inch (203 mm)/22 guns
2 × 1 - 6-inch (152 mm)/23 guns
2 × 1 - 3.4-inch (86 mm) guns
8 × 1 - 37-millimeter (1.5 in)/23 guns
1 × 15-inch (381 mm) submerged torpedo tube |
Armor: | Belt: 5–6 in (127–152 mm) |
The General-Admiral-class ships were a pair of armored cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the early 1870s.
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-979-0.
- Watts, Anthony J. (1990). The Imperial Russian Navy. London: Arms and Armour. ISBN 0-85368-912-1.
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- Preceded by: None
- Followed by: Minin
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- List of cruisers of the Imperial Russian Navy
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