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Pamiat' Merkuriya  

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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Ярославль [Yaroslavl'], 4.1883- Память Меркурия [Pamiat' Merkuriya]			F c de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France	1879	22.5.1880	21.9.1880 // 30.4.1882	stricken 4.1907

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	2997
Displacement full, t
Length, m	90.0 wl
Breadth, m	12.4
Draught, m	5.97 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 HC, 6 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	3000
Max speed, kts	14
Fuel, t	coal 300
Endurance, nm(kts)	1560(10)
Armament	6 x 1 - 152/25 obr. 1877, 4 x 1 - 107/17 9pdr obr. 1877, 1 x 1 - 44/41 Ängström, 2 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 4 - 381 TT (aw, beam), 180 mines
Complement	343

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Project history

Black Sea Fleet. Originally named Yaroslavl', the Pamiat' Merkuriya was a barque-rigged, unprotected steel and iron cruiser with a projecting ram bow. She was reckoned to be a good sea-boat. The 6in guns were without shields, and were located at bow and stem with four in upper deck sponsons.

Modernizations

1890s: - 4 x 1 - 107/17, 1 x 1 - 44/41, 2 - 381 TT; + 2 x 1 - 63/17 Baranovski, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss

Naval service

Pamiat' Merkuriya was stricken in 1907 but recommissioned as a hulk in 1915 and was broken up only in 1939.