 Tifon or Koldun after the mid-1870s
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| History | |
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 Russian Empire | |
| Name | Tifon (Тифон) |
| Namesake | Typhoon |
| Ordered | 23 March 1863[Note 1] |
| Builder | New Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg |
| Cost | 1,105,800 rubles |
| Laid down | 1 December 1863 |
| Launched | 27 June 1864 |
| In service | 1865 |
| Out of service | 6 July 1900 |
| Reclassified | As coastal defense ship, 13 February 1892 |
| Stricken | 17 August 1900 |
| Fate | Converted into a mine storage hulk, 1909, and scrapped after 1922 |
| General characteristics | |
| 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 | 6.7 knots (12.4 km/h; 7.7 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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Tifon (Russian: Тифон) was an 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. Spending her entire career with the Baltic Fleet, the ship was only active when the Gulf of Finland was not frozen, but very little is known about her service. She was struck from the Navy List in 1900, converted into a storage hulk for mines in 1909 and renamed Blokshiv No. 3. The ship was abandoned by the Soviets in Finland in 1918; although retroceded to the Soviets in 1922, she was later scrapped by the Finns.
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