General-Admiral-class cruiser

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.

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