_il._14_(cropped).jpg) Pervenets as depicted by an 1893 lithograph
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| History | |
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 Russian Empire | |
| Name | Pervenets (Russian: Первенец) |
| Operator | Imperial Russian Navy |
| Ordered | 18 November 1861 |
| Builder | Thames Iron Works, Blackwall, London |
| Cost | 917,000 rubles |
| Laid down | December 1861 |
| Launched | 18 May 1863[Note 1] |
| Commissioned | 28 July 1864 |
| Reclassified | Coast defense ship, 13 February 1892 |
| Stricken | 15 September 1905 |
| Fate | Sold for use as a barge, 8 August 1908 |
 Soviet Union | |
| Name | Barzha No. 1 (Barge No. 1) |
| Acquired | 30 June 1922 |
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| Stricken | Late 1950s |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1960s |
| General characteristics (as completed) | |
| Class and type | Pervenets-class broadside ironclad |
| Displacement | 3,277 long tons (3,330 t) |
| Length | 220 ft (67.1 m) |
| Beam | 53 ft (16.2 m) |
| Draft | 14 ft 6 in (4.4 m) |
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| Propulsion | 1 shaft,1 × 3-cylinder horizontal return-connecting-rod steam engine |
| Sail plan | Schooner |
| Speed | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
| Complement | 459 officers and crewmen |
| Armament | 26 × 7.72-inch (196 mm) 60-pounder smoothbore guns |
| Armor | Belt: 4–4.5 in (102–114 mm) |
The Russian ironclad Pervenets (Russian: Первенец) was a broadside ironclad built for the Imperial Russian Navy in Britain during the 1860s. The ship had to be built abroad as no Russian shipyard had mastered the techniques required to build iron-hulled armored vessels. She was assigned to the Baltic Fleet upon completion and never left Russian waters. Pervenets served with the Gunnery Training Detachment for her entire career until she was reduced to reserve in 1904. She was disarmed and stricken the following year and finally sold in 1908. After the end of the Russian Civil War, the ship was reacquired by the Soviets in 1922 and used to transport and store coal, a role she performed until discarded in the late 1950s. However, she was apparently not scrapped until the early 1960s.
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