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Riurik

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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Рюрик [Riurik]			Carr & McFerson, St. Petersburg	31.5.1890	3.11.1892	16.11.1895	sunk 14.8.1904

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	10933
Displacement full, t	11690
Length, m	125.6 pp 130.1 wl 132.6 oa
Breadth, m	20.4
Draught, m	7.90
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 8 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	13250
Max speed, kts	18
Fuel, t	coal 1933
Endurance, nm(kts)	6700(10)
Armour, mm	steel; belt: 254 - 203, battery bulkheads: 102, shields: 51, deck: 76 - 51, CT: 152
Armament	4 x 1 - 203/33, 16 x 1 - 152/44 Canet, 6 x 1 - 120/43 Canet, 2 x 1 - 63/17 Baranovski, 10 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 12 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 6 - 381 TT (aw, 1 bow, 4 beam, 1 stern)
Complement	683

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Project history

Although the Riurik caused a considerable stir when first built, she was a thoroughly unsatisfactory design with only half her armament available on the broadside, inadequate protection and poor compartmentation. Riurik was barque-rigged and sheathed and coppered.

Ship protection

The belt was 98m long, 2.1m wide and 254-203mm reduced to 127mm at the lower edge and ending in 254-229mm bulkheads. The 203mm guns in sponsons, the 152mm on the main deck and the 120mm on the upper deck were protected by shields while the heavy 102mmm bulkheads gave some protection to 14 of the 152mm. The armour deck was 51mm over the belt, increased to 76mm at ship ends. CT had 152mm sides and 76mm communication tube.

Modernizations

1900s: - 4 x 1 - 47/40, 12 x 5 - 37/17; + 10 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss

Naval service

Riurik was sunk 14.8.1904 at Ulsan by 203mm and 152mm shells from the Japanese cruisers.