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NAVARIN turrret ship (1896)

Navarin 1904

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Наварин [Navarin]     Franko-Russkiy Plant, St. Petersburg 31.5.1890 1.11.1891 6/1896 sunk 28.5.1905

 

Displacement normal, t

10206

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

109.0

Breadth, m

20.4

Draught, m

8.38 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 12 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

9140

Max speed, kts

15.5

Fuel, t

coal 1200

Endurance, nm(kts)

3050(10)

Armour, mm

compound; belt: 406 - 203, turrets: 305 (nickel steel), battery: 127, deck: 76 - 51, CT: 254 (steel)

Armament

2 x 2 - 305/32, 8 x 1 - 152/32 obr. 1877, 2 x 1 - 64/17 Baranovski, 8 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 15 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 6 - 381 TT (1 bow, 4 beam, 1 stern)

Complement

622

Project history: A turret ship of 3m freeboard as completed. The turret bases were not individually armoured, and the 152mm guns were in an upper deck battery. The Navarin suffered from insufficient boiler power, but for her date was well protected. A most unusual feature was the location of the four funnels in two pairs abreast.

Ship protection: The belt was 67m long, the lower strake being 406-356mm with an 203mm lower edge and reaching from 1.5m below to 0.6m above lwl, while the upper strake was 46m long, 2.4m wide and a uniform 305mm. The bulkheads were 305mm and the armour deck 63-51mm over the belt and 76mm at the ends.

Modernizations: 1904: - 3 x 1 - 37/20; + 4 x 1 - 120/43 Canet, 4 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 10 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss

Naval service: At night 27-28.5.1905 in the Tsushima Straits she was sunk by three torpedoes fired by Japanese torpedo boats.

Navarin 1900

© Ivan Gogin, 2014