Vitiaz-class cruiser
 Rynda |
| Class overview |
| Operators: |
 Russian Navy |
| Preceded by: |
None |
| Succeeded by: |
Admiral Kornilov |
| Built: |
1883–1887 |
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In commission: |
1886–1914 |
| Completed: |
2 |
| Lost: |
1 |
| Scrapped: |
1 |
| General characteristics |
| Type: | Protected cruiser |
| Displacement: | 3,537 long tons (3,594 t) |
| Length: | 260 ft 6 in (79.4 m) |
| Beam: | 45 ft (13.7 m) |
| Draft: | 19 ft 11 in (6.1 m) |
| Installed power: | approximately 3,000 ihp (2,200 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, 1 Compound steam engine, 10 cylindrical water-tube boilers |
| Speed: | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement: | 330 officers and crewmen |
| Armament: | 10 × 1 - 6-inch (152 mm)/28 guns
4 × 1 - 3.4-inch (86 mm) guns
8 × 1 - 37-millimeter (1.5 in)/23 guns
3 × 15-inch (381 mm) submerged torpedo tubes |
| Armor: | Deck: 1.5 in (38 mm) |
The Vitiaz-class ships were a pair of partially protected cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the mid-1880s.
Footnotes
References
- Robert Gardiner, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- Watts, Anthony J. (1990). The Imperial Russian Navy. London: Arms and Armour. ISBN 0-85368-912-1.
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- Vitiaz
- Rynda / Osvoboditel
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- List of cruisers of the Imperial Navy
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