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FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
RUSSIA / USSR
CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS
armed merchant cruisers of Russian-Japanese war 1904 - 1905


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Kuban'

Ships


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


Standard scale images


<i>Angara </i>1904
Angara 1904
<i>Lena </i>1904
Lena 1904
<i>Don </i>1904
Don 1904
<i>Rus' </i>1905 more than 1000 BRT
Rus' 1905 more than 1000 BRT


Graphics


<i>Kuban'</i>
Kuban'
<i>Ural</i>
Ural
<i>Terek</i>
Terek
<i>Rion</i>
Rion
<i>Dnepr</i>
Dnepr


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.