Sivuch

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Gunboat Siwutsch on the Liao He, 1904
Overview
Type	Gunboat
Shipyard	Bergsund shipyard , Stockholm
Keel laying	April 15, 1884
Launch	July 21, 1884
Commissioning	October 28, 1884
Whereabouts	Aug. 20, 1904, self- sunk, scrapped in Japan in 1913
Technical specifications
displacement	950 t , max. 1,187 t
length	60.3 m
width	10.7 m
Draft	3.7 m
crew	170 men
drive	6 boilers, 2 screws 2 horizontal double compound machines 1,140 HP
speed	11.7 kn
Armament	• 1 × 229 mm L / 30 cannon • 1 × 152 mm L / 35 cannon • 6 × 107 mm L / 20 cannons • 4 × 37 mm L / 23 Hotchkiss rapid fire guns • 1 × 64 mm L / 19 Baranowski landing gun
Armored deck	13 mm
Sister ship	Bobr
similar	Grozjashchi , Gremjashchi , Otvaschny , Khrabry

Sivuch ( Russian Сивуч , sea lion ' ) was the name of a sea-going gunboat of the Imperial Russian Navy . Commissioned in 1884, it was used in the Far East. It was blown up by the occupation during the Russo-Japanese War .

history

The Siwutsch was the second boat in a class of two boats, the type ship was the Bobr .

The boat was on April 15, 1884. Bergsund the shipyard in Stockholm on laid keel , the launch took place on 21 July 1884. Placed in service was the Siwutsch finally on 28 October 1884th

After completing the acceptance and training trips, the boat moved to the Far East to the Russian Pacific Squadron in Vladivostok in 1886 . In the following year, the Sivutsch took part in a research trip to survey Muravyov Island in the Sea of ​​Japan . The island was named after a member of the crew, Lieutenant Alexander Petrovich Muravyov.

In July 1891 the Sivutsch visited Siam as part of a diplomatic mission. The commander of the boat, Captain 2nd rank Plaxin, presented the Siamese King Chulalongkorn with the Russian Order of St. Andrew the First Called and a personal letter from the Russian Emperor Alexander III. Plaxin itself was awarded the Siamese Order of the White Elephant of the 2nd stage .

On December 8, 1897, the boat took part in the occupation of the Chinese port of Lüta . The port was leased to Russia from 1897 to 1905 and was given the name Dalni ( Дальний , for far because of its location in the Far East). From June 5, 1900, the boat was involved in the transfer of troops during the Boxer Rising . It transported reinforcements for the Russian troops operating on the Tientsin peninsula under Colonel Anissimow ( Анисимов ).

At the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, the boat was in the port of Yingkou for repairs . After the withdrawal of the Russian troops from the port city, the boat drove up the Liao He . Since there was no prospect of breaking through to the Russian naval forces in Port Arthur or Vladivostok, the crew blew up the boat on July 20, 1904 so as not to let it fall into enemy hands.

literature

• Communications from the Maritime Sector, Volume 12 . C. Gerold's Sohn in Vienna, 1884. (Original from University of Michigan, digitized November 20, 2008.)
• Guido von Frobel : Military weekly paper . Volume 77, ES Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1892.
• Oswald Flamm: Shipbuilding: Journal for the entire industry in shipbuilding and related areas . Volume 6, Berliner Union Verlagsgesellschaft 1904.

Web links

• Photos, drawings and technical data (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guido von Frobel: Military weekly paper . Volume 77, ES Mittler, 1892, p. 598.
2. ↑ Oswald Flamm: Shipbuilding: Journal for the entire industry in shipbuilding and related areas . Volume 6, p. 308.