Admiral Kornilov
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| Overview | |
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| Type | Protected cruiser |
| Shipyard |
Saint-Nazaire |
| Keel laying | 1886 |
| Launch | April 9, 1887 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | 1888 |
| Decommissioning | 1911 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
Construction: 4950 ts |
| length |
over everything: 112.16 m |
| width |
14.83 m |
| Draft |
7.77 m |
| crew |
479 men |
| drive |
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| speed |
17.6 kn |
| Armament |
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| Armor |
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| stock |
1000 tons of coal |
The Admiral Kornilow was an armored deck cruiser or armored cruiser of the Imperial Russian Navy .
The cruiser was in 1886 in Saint-Nazaire , France , in Kiel down from on April 9, 1887 stack left and put into service the 1,888th
With a length of 112.16 m, a width of 14.8 m and a draft of 7.8 m, the ship displaced 4,950 ts when empty and 5,863 ts when fully equipped.
The armament consisted of 14 × 152 mm L / 35 cannons, 6 × 3 pounders and 10 × 1 pounders, and six 38 cm surface torpedo tubes . After a rebuilding in 1904/05, the main artillery consisted of 10 × 152 mm L / 45 cannons.
The armor was 25-64 mm thick; The armor thickness at the command post was 75 mm. In addition, the ventilation and smoke gas ducts in the engine and boiler rooms had armor plates with a thickness of 76 to 114 mm.
With eight cylinder boilers and two standing triple expansion steam engines , the machine system produced 5,977 PSi and a top speed of 17.6 knots. The bunker capacity was 1,000 tons of coal. The crew numbered 479 men.
The cruiser served both in the Baltic Sea and the Pacific, was a torpedo training ship from 1908 and was decommissioned in 1911.
In the 1950s, a Sverdlov class cruiser of the same name was planned and laid down. The completion was canceled, however, the ship was used as a residential ship because the construction had progressed too far.
literature
- John Roberts, HC Timewell, Roger Chesneau (Ed.), Eugene M. Kolesnik (Ed.): Warships of the World 1860 to 1905 - Volume 2: USA, Japan and Russia. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1983, ISBN 3-7637-5403-2 .
