Russian corvette Vityaz (1862)

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Russian corvette Vityaz
History
Russia
Name	Vityaz (1862–1882)
Namesake	Slavic folk character, Mikhail Skobelev
Laid down	August 23, 1861
Launched	July 24, 1862
Decommissioned	1895
Renamed	Skobelev (1882–1892)
Fate	Scrapped in 1895
General characteristics
Class and type	Bogatyr-class steam corvette
Displacement	2,156 tons
Length	66.3 m (217 ft 6 in)[1]
Beam	12 m (39 ft 4 in)[1]
Draft	5.3 m (17 ft 5 in)[1]
Propulsion	Steam engines, sails
Speed	11–12 knots (20–22 km/h; 13–14 mph)
Armament	17 × 60-pounder smoothbore cannons (1862–1870) 12 × rifled guns (1870-1895)

Vityaz (Russian: Витязь, translit. Vityaz) was a steam corvette of the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy. Later renamed Skobelev, Vityaz spent much of its career as an oceanographic research vessel, completing two circumnavigations of the world in this capacity.