Admiral General

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Admiral General
The tank frigate General-Admiral
The tank frigate General-Admiral
Ship data
flag Russian EmpireRussian Empire (naval war flag) Russian Empire Soviet Union
Soviet UnionSoviet Union (naval war flag) 
other ship names
  • Narova
  • Dvadsatpyatavo Oktyabrya
Ship type Armored frigate belt armored
cruiser
Shipyard Nevsky Shipyard, Saint Petersburg
Keel laying November 27, 1870
Launch October 1873
Commissioning 1875
Removal from the ship register July 1944
Whereabouts Scrapped in 1953
Ship dimensions and crew
length
87.12 m ( KWL )
85.6 m ( Lpp )
width 14.6 m
Draft Max. 7.4 m
displacement Construction: 4602 t
maximum: 5031 t
 
crew 480-490 men
Machine system
machine 12 suitcase boilers
from 1892:
4 cylinder boilers
1 × compound steam engine
Machine
performance 		4,470 hp (3,288 kW)
Top
speed 		12.0 kn (22 km / h)
propeller 1
Rigging and rigging
Number of masts 3
Armament
Armor

Material: wrought iron
belt : 5-6 inches
deck : 1 inch

Remarks
Bunker quantity

500–1000 tons of coal

Ship data

Miramar Ship Index, accessed May 26, 2009

The armored frigate General-Admiral (Генерал-Адмирал) was the world's first belt armored cruiser and was built at the Nevsky Shipyard in Saint Petersburg , Russia from 1870 to 1875 .

history

The keel was laid on November 27, 1870, the launch was in October 1873. The General-Admiral was put into service in 1875. She was operated in her actual function until 1909, when it was finally renamed Narova and just like her sister ship Gerzog Edinburgskij (from 1909 Onega ) to be converted into a mine-layer with a capacity of 600 sea mines. In 1922 she was again renamed Dvadsatpyatavo Oktyabrya ("October 25") and used until 1938 as a training ship . After it was retired and removed from the fleet list in 1944, it was canceled in 1953.

The world's first belt armored cruiser was also the last ship of this type that ultimately still existed.

Armament

Scheme of a belt armored cruiser (armor marked in red) → Here with a lightly armored deck

The armament consisted of six 203 mm guns in a casemate , one 152 mm gun in the fore and one in the stern , four 87 mm cannons , eight 37 mm revolver cannons and two 381 mm torpedo tubes .

literature

  • John Roberts, HC Timewell, Roger Chesneau (Eds.), Eugene M. Kolesnik (Eds.): Warships of the World 1860 to 1905 - Volume 1: Great Britain / Germany. Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1983, ISBN 3-7637-5402-4 .
  • Alfred Dudszus, Alfred Köpcke: The big book of ship types. Weltbild Verlag (licensed edition by transpress, Berlin), Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89350-831-7 .

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