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Svetlana

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Светлана [Svetlana]			F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre, France	10.7.1895	12/1896	2.4.1898	sunk 28.5.1905

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3770
Displacement full, t	3862
Length, m	101.0 wl
Breadth, m	13.0
Draught, m	5.69 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 18 Belleville boilers
Power, h. p.	8500
Max speed, kts	21.6
Fuel, t	coal 820
Endurance, nm(kts)	3500(10)
Armour, mm	Nickel steel; deck: 38 with 63mm slopes, ammunition hoists: 51, CT: 102
Armament	6 x 1 - 152/44 Canet, 10 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 - 381 TT (aw, beam), 20 mines
Complement	401

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Project history

A three-funnelled cruiser with a pronounced ram bow, and sheathed and coppered, the Svetlana was in peacetime fitted out as a yacht for the Grand Duke commanding the Russian Navy, and had a considerable amount of woodwork installed. Four of the 6in guns were in main deck sponsons and two fore and aft on the upper deck.

Ship protection

There was a 38mm deck with 63mm slopes, a 51mm hood over the engine room and 127mm glacis to the hatches. The CT was 102mm and the ammunition tube to the forecastle 152mm gun and the broadside patches protecting the TT were 51mm.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Svetlana was sunk 28.5.1905 on the day after Tsushima by Japanese cruisers Otowa and Niitaka.