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Bobr

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Сивуч [Sivuch]			Bergsunds, Stockholm, Sweden	4.1884	2.8.1884	11.1884	scuttled 2.8.1904
Бобр [Bobr]			Crichton, Abo	1.1884	22.4.1885	1.1886	sunk 26.12.1904

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	950
Displacement full, t	Bobr: 1187 Sivuch: 1134
Length, m	57.1 wl 60.3 oa
Breadth, m	10.7
Draught, m	Bobr: 3.70 max Sivuch: 3.50 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 HC, 6 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	1100
Max speed, kts	11
Fuel, t	coal 180 - 200
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	steel; deck: 13
Armament	1 x 1 - 229/27 obr. 1877, 1 x 1 - 152/25 obr. 1877, 6 x 1 - 107/17 9pdr obr. 1877, 1 x 1 - 63/17 Baranovski, 4 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss
Complement	188

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Project history

Flat-bottomed ships with fine bow lines and originally brig-rigged. The 229mm was mounted as a bow chaser with 36° training on either side and the 152mm right aft with a total arc of 270°. They were later given three masts.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Sivuch was blown up by own crew on Liao river near Sanchahe 2.8.1904 to avoid capture by Japanese. Bobr was 2.11.1904 badly damaged by shells of Japanese field guns in Port Arthur harbour, disarmed and demolished by own crew and finally sank 26.12.1904 by Japanese field guns.