armed merchant cruisers of Russian-Japanese war 1904 - 1905

Angara 1904

Lena 1904

Don 1904

Rus' 1905

more than 1000 BRT

Name	Launched // Comm.	Builder	Displacement, t	Dimensions, m	Speed, kts	Engine, Power hp	Armament	Fate
Ангара [Angara] (ex-Москва [Moskva])	1898 // 14.8.1903	Clydebank, UK	12050	154.8x17.7	20.1	16839	6-120/43, 6-75/48	sunk 30.10.1904
Лена [Lena] (ex-Херсон [Kherson])	1896 // 15.9.1903	Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle, UK	10675	145.5x15.6	19.5	13500	6-120/43, 6-75/48	returned 12.1906
Кубань [Kuban'] (ex-Auguste Viktoria]	1.12.1888 // 26.7.1904	Vulkan, Stettin, Germany	12000	164.2x17.1	18.5	13300	2-120/43, 4-75/48, 8-57	stricken 12.1906
Дон [Don] (ex-Fürst Bismarck)	29.11.1890 // 26.7.1904	Vulkan, Stettin, Germany	10000	158.4x15.5	19.5	16410	2-120/43, 5-75/48, 8-57	stricken 10.1906
Урал [Ural] (ex-Kaiserin Maria Teresia)	17.5.1890 // 26.7.1904	Vulkan, Stettin, Germany	10500	161.1x15.8	19	17000	2-120/43, 4-75/48, 8-57	sunk 27.5.1905
Терек [Terek] (ex-Columbia)	27.2.1889 // 25.8.1904	Laird, Birkenhead, UK	10000	139.9x17.1	19	13300	2-120/43, 4-75/48, 8-57	interned by Netherlands 9.6.1905-9/1905, stricken 12.1906
Днепр [Dnepr] (ex-Петербург [Peterburg])	1894 // 10.1904	Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle, UK	9500	140.8x15.9	19	11500	7-120/43, 8-47, 10-37	returned 8.1905
Рион [Rion] (ex-Смоленск [Smolensk])	1901 // 10.1904	Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle, UK	14614	143.3x17.7	20	15910	8-120/43, 7-75/48, 4-47	returned 8.1905
Русь [Rus'] (ex-Lahn)	7.6.1887 // 11.1904	Vulkan, Stettin, Germany	9600	141.0x14.9	18.5	9000	4-75/48, 10-57, 9 balloons	stricken 11.1906

Project history: Merchant vessels mobilized for service as AMC in the time of Russian-Japanese War 1904-1905.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Angara was sunk by Japanese field guns at Port Arthur 30.10.1904. Ural was sunk by shells from Japanese ships 27.5.1905 at the Battle of Tsushima.

Kuban'

Ural

Terek

Rion

Dnepr

IMPERIAL RUSSIAN NAVY (RUSSIA)

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

armed merchant cruisers of Russian-Japanese war 1904 - 1905