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Askold

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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Аскольд [Askold]			Deutsche Werke, Kiel, Germany	20.7.1899	15.3.1900	21.9.1901	interned by China 13.8.1904-5/1905, captured by UK 12.7.1918 (Glory IV)

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	5860
Displacement full, t	5950
Length, m	123.3 pp 130.0 wl 132.1 oa
Breadth, m	15.6
Draught, m	6.20 max
No of shafts	3
Machinery	3 VTE, 19 Schultz-Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	19000
Max speed, kts	23
Fuel, t	coal 1100
Endurance, nm(kts)	4300(10)
Armour, mm	deck: 51 with 76mm slopes, shields: 25, CT: 152
Armament	12 x 1 - 152/44 Canet, 12 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 2 x 1 - 63/17 Baranovski, 8 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 6 - 381 TT (1 bow (aw), 4 beam (2 aw, 2 sub), 1 stern (aw))
Complement	534

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Project history

Of unique appearance with five tall funnels, the Askold was flush-decked with a short forward superstructure which did not reach the bows. One of the 152mm was mounted on this, and the rest at upper deck level, 1 aft and 5 on either broadside. The 75mm were at main deck level. Askold was usually reckoned the fastest of the larger Russian cruisers.

Ship protection

The protective deck was 51mm with 76mm slopes and 102mm on the engine room hatch glacis. The CT had 152mm with 30mm roof, the ammunition and communication tubes 38mm and the bow and stern TT 63-38mm.

Modernizations

1912: - 2 x 1 - 75/48, 2 x 1 - 63/17, 4 x 1 - 47/40, 6 - 381 TT; + 4 x 1 - 7.6/94, 4 - 450 TT (beam, 2 aw, 2 sub)

1915: - 4 x 1 - 47/40; + 2 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss AA, 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss AA

Naval service

Askold after Battle in the Yellow Sea 10.8.1904 escaped to Shanghai where she was interned by Chinese Government 13.8.1904 till the end of Russian-Japanese War. In days of WWI she served at Far East, in the Mediterranean and in North seas, where she was 12.7.1918 in Kola Bay captured by British and as Glory IV towed off to Britain in 1919. In 1922 she was returned to Russia but sold for BU that year.