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Rossiya 1897

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Россия [Rossiya]			Baltic Wks, St. Petersburg	1.6.1895	12.5.1896	25.9.1897	sold 7.1922

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	12130
Displacement full, t	12195
Length, m	140.6 pp 144.2 wl 147.8 oa
Breadth, m	20.9
Draught, m	7.92 max
No of shafts	3
Machinery	3 VTE, 32 Belleville boilers
Power, h. p.	17000 (14500 + 2500)
Max speed, kts	19.7
Fuel, t	coal 2200
Endurance, nm(kts)	7740(10)
Armour, mm	Harvey-nickel steel; belt: 203 - 127, bulkhead: 178, glacises: 127, deck: 76 - 51, casemates: 127 - 38, CT: 305
Armament	4 x 1 - 203/43, 16 x 1 - 152/44 Canet, 12 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 20 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 18 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 5 - 381 TT (1 bow, 4 beam)
Complement	839

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Project history

High-endurance armoured cruiser intending for actions on enemy trading routes. An unfortunate design, though an improvement on the Riurik. At full power only the 2 wing shafts were used, giving the ihp quoted in the table, as there was insufficient boiler power to use the 2500ihp centre engine in addition, and this was kept for cruising with the wing screws disconnected. The Rossiya was sheathed and coppered.

Ship protection

Main 2.6m-high belt protected 119.8m length and had 203mm thickness (tapering to 127mm at lower edge) between 203mm gun sponsos, short parts fwd from fore sponsons and aft from aft sponsons had 152mm thickness, aft part of hull (between 152mm part and stern) was protected by 127mm belt. Belt was closed by fore 178mm bulkhead in 25m from the stem. Flat protective 76mm deck (51mm near centerline) covered main belt, this deck has turtleback form fwd from fore 178mm bulkhead and had 76 - 63mm thickness. Engines had 127mm glacises. Fore 203mm guns were protected by 51mm fore transverse bulkhead only, 152mm main battery had 127mm fore and aft transverse bulkheads and 38mm inner transverse bulkheads. Aft pair of 152mm guns were protected by fore transverse 38mm bulkheads. Gun hoists were protected by 76mm armour. CT had 305mm sides.

Modernizations

1904: - 6 x 1 - 75/48; + 6 x 1 - 152/44 Canet

1909: central shaft with cruising VTE was removed (2 VTE, 32 Belleville boilers, 14500hp, 20.4kts, coal stowage rose to 2530t); - 20 x 1 - 47/40, 18 x 1 - 37/20, 5 - 381 TT; + 9 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 200 - 300 mines

1915:- 4 x 1 - 203/43, 8 x 1 - 152/44, 15 x 1 - 75/48; + 6 x 1 - 203/49, 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss AA

Naval service

After the Civil war cruiser was disarmed and broken up in 1922.