Russian cruiser Pamiat Azova

1892 lithograph
History
Russian Empire
Name	Pamiat Azova
Builder	Baltic Works, St. Petersburg, Russia
Laid down	1886
Launched	1 July 1888
Commissioned	1890
Renamed	Dvina in 1909
Reclassified	torpedo school ship, 1909
Refit	1904
Fate	Sunk by British torpedo boats, 18 August 1919
General characteristics
Type	Armoured cruiser
Displacement	6,674 t (6,569 long tons)
Length	384 ft 6 in (117.20 m)
Beam	56 ft 6 in (17.22 m)
Draught	26 ft 10 in (8.18 m)
Propulsion	As built: Two shaft VTE steam engines Six cylindrical boilers - 8,500 ihp (6,300 kW) Refitted: Two vertical triple expansion 18 Bellville boilers - 5,664 ihp (4,224 kW)
Speed	17 knots (31 km/h)
Complement	640
Armament	2 × 8-inch (200 mm) guns 13 × 6-inch (150 mm) guns 7 × 47 mm guns 8 × 37 mm guns 3 × 15 in (380 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour	Belt: 6–4 in (150–100 mm) Deck: 2.5 in (64 mm) Gun shields: 2 in (51 mm) Conning tower: 1.5 in (38 mm)

Pamiat Azova (Russian: Память Азовa) was a unique armoured cruiser built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the late 1880s. She was decommissioned from front line service in 1909, converted into a depot ship and sunk by British torpedo boats during the Baltic Naval War, part of the Russian Civil War.