Grozyashchiy 1904
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Грозящий [Grozyashchiy] | New Admiralty, St. Petersburg | 6.1889 | 1.6.1890 | 2.1892 | auxiliary 10.1911, gunboat 1.1915, interned by Germany 12.4.1918, returned 5.1918, sold 8.1922 | ||
| Гремящий [Gremyashchiy] | New Admiralty, St. Petersburg | 1.1891 | 20.5.1892 | 1893 | sunk 18.8.1904 | ||
| Отважный [Otvazhnyy] | Baltic Wks, St. Petersburg | 1.1891 | 20.5.1892 | 1893 | scuttled 2.1.1905 |
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Displacement normal, t |
1492 |
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Displacement full, t |
Grozyashchiy: 1627 Gremyashchiy: 1700 Otvazhnyy: 1854 |
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Length, m |
70.2 pp 72.3 oa |
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Breadth, m |
12.7 |
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Draught, m |
Grozyashchiy, Gremyashchiy: 3.40 norm 4.00 max Otvazhnyy: 3.71 norm 4.40 max |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 VTE, 6 Belleville boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
Grozyashchiy, Gremyashchiy: 2050 Otvazhnyy: 2500 |
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Max speed, kts |
14 - 14.5 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 200 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 1000(8) |
| Armour, mm | steel; belt: 127 - 70, bulkhead: 38, deck: 38 - 19, CT: 25 |
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Armament |
1 x 1 - 229/32 obr.1877, 1 x 1 - 152/32 obr.1877, 6 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 4 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 2 - 381 TT (aw, beam), 20 mines |
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Complement |
178 - 188 |
Project history: First Russian armoured gunboats. Intended for service in the Far East.
Ship protection: Main belt (55x1.52m) had 127mm thickness abreast machinery (tapering to 76mm at lower edge), its thickness decreased to 102mm abreast CT and partly main gun, to 76mm between machinery and stern and to 70mm at short part fwd from main gun, fore end of belt was closed by 38mm bulkhead. Main 25-19mm deck was connected with upper edge of main belt and fore part of hull outside citadel was protected by turtleback-shaped 38mm deck. CT had 25mm sides and roof, ammunition hoists had 51mm protection.
Modernizations: 1915, Grozyashchiy: received new armament consisted of 2 x 1 - 152/49, 6 x 1 - 76/28 Lender
1916, Grozyashchiy: - 5 x 1 - 76/28; + 2 x 1 - 152/49
1917, Grozyashchiy: - 2 x 1 - 152/49, 1 x 1 - 76/28; + 2 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94
Naval service: Gremyashchiy 18.8.1904 was sunk by Japanese mine off Port Arthur. Otvazhny was blown up and scuttled by crew 2.1.1905 at Port Arthur. Grozyashchiy after the termination of Civil war was laid up and sold for scrap in August, 1922.
Grozyashchiy 1900
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