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RYNDA screw corvettes (1885 - 1887)


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Rynda 1887

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Витязь [Vityaz']     Galerny Is, St. Petersburg 28.8.1883 4.11.1884 spring 1886 wrecked 10.5.1893
Рында [Rynda], 5.1917- Освободитель [Osvoboditel']     Franko-Russkiy Wks (Galerny Is), St. Petersburg 25.10.1883 30.6.1885 1886 TS 3.1906, dispatch vessel 5.1917, stricken 8.1926


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

3537

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

79.4

Breadth, m

13.7

Draught, m

5.33 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HC, 10 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

3000

Max speed, kts

11.5

Fuel, t

coal 500

Endurance, nm(kts)2400(10)
Armour, mm

steel; deck: 38

Armament

4 x 1 - 152/25 obr 1877, 4 x 1 - 87/21 obr 1877, 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 6 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 1 - 381 TT (bow)

Complement

396



Standard scale images


<i>Rynda </i>1892
Rynda 1892


Graphics


<i>Rynda</i> 1887
Rynda 1887
<i>Rynda</i> 1890s  
Rynda 1890s  


Project history

Steel and iron hulled partly protected cruisers with barque rig, sheathed and coppered.

Ship protection

Protective deck closed machinery only.

Modernizations

1901, Rynda: - 2 x 1 - 87/21; + 4 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 3 - 381 TT

1905, Rynda: armament consisted of 4 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94

Naval service

Vityaz` wrecked 10.5.1893 off Lazarev Port (Sea of Japan). Rynda  was re-rated to TS in 1906 and sold for BU in May, 1922.