 Bronenosets, probably in the 1870s
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| History | |
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 Russian Empire | |
| Name | Bronenosets (Броненосец) |
| Namesake | Armadillo |
| Ordered | 23 March 1863[Note 1] |
| Builder | Carr and MacPherson, Saint Petersburg |
| Cost | 1,148,000 rubles |
| Laid down | 24 December 1863 |
| Launched | 24 March 1864 |
| In service | 6 June 1865 |
| Out of service | 6 July 1900 |
| Reclassified | As coastal defense ship, 13 February 1892 |
| Stricken | 17 August 1900 |
| Fate | Converted into a coal barge, 1903, and lost at sea during World War I |
| General characteristics (as completed) | |
| Class and type | Uragan-class monitor |
| Displacement | 1,500–1,600 long tons (1,524–1,626 t) |
| Length | 201 ft (61.3 m) |
| Beam | 46 ft (14.0 m) |
| Draft | 10.16–10.84 ft (3.1–3.3 m) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | 1 shaft, 1 × 2-cylinder horizontal direct-acting steam engine |
| Speed | 7.75 knots (14.35 km/h; 8.92 mph) |
| Range | 1,440 nmi (2,670 km; 1,660 mi) at 6 knots (11 km/h; 6.9 mph) |
| Complement | 96–110 |
| Armament | 2 × 9 in (229 mm) smoothbore guns |
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Bronenosets (Russian: Броненосец) was a Uragan-class monitor built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the mid-1860s. The design was based on the American Passaic-class monitor, but was modified to suit Russian engines, guns and construction techniques. The ship was only active when the Gulf of Finland was not frozen, but very little is known about her service. She was stricken in 1900 from the Navy List, converted into a coal barge in 1903 and renamed Barzha No. 324. The ship was lost in a storm sometime during World War I.
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