Russian monitor Tifon
 Tifon or Koldun after the mid-1870s | |
| Career (Russian Empire) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | Tifon (Тифон) |
| Namesake: | Typhoon |
| Ordered: | 23 March 1863[Note 1] |
| Builder: | New Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg |
| Cost: | 1,105,800 rubles |
| Laid down: | 1 December 1863 |
| Launched: | 27 June 1864 |
| In service: | 1865 |
| Out of service: | 6 July 1900 |
| Reclassified: | As coastal defense ship, 13 February 1892 |
| Struck: | 17 August 1900 |
| Fate: | Converted into a mine storage hulk, 1909, and scrapped after 1922 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Uragan-class monitor |
| Displacement: | 1,500–1,600 long tons (1,524–1,626 t) |
| Length: | 201 ft (61.3 m) |
| Beam: | 46 ft (14.0 m) |
| Draft: | 10.16–10.84 ft (3.1–3.3 m) |
| Installed power: | 340–500 ihp (254–373 kW) 2 rectangular Morton boilers |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, 1 × 2-cylinder horizontal direct-acting steam engine |
| Speed: | 6.7 knots (12.4 km/h; 7.7 mph) |
| Range: | 1,440 nmi (2,670 km; 1,660 mi) at 6 knots (11 km/h; 6.9 mph) |
| Complement: | 96–110 |
| Armament: | 2 × 9 in (229 mm) smoothbore guns |
| Armor: | Hull: 5 in (127 mm) Gun turret: 11 in (279 mm) Funnel base: 6 in (152 mm) Conning tower: 8 in (203 mm) |
Tifon (Russian: Тифон) was a Uragan-class monitor built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the mid-1860s.
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References
- Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- McLaughlin, Stephen (2012). "Russia's American Monitors: The Uragan Class". In John Jordan. Warship 2012. London: Conway. pp. 98–112. ISBN 978-1-84486-156-9.