Pervenets-class ironclad
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Pervenets at anchor
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Pervenetz |
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 Imperial Russian Navy
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| Preceded by: | Sevastopol |
| Succeeded by: | Kniaz Pozharsky |
| Built: | 1862–65 |
| Completed: | 3 |
| Scrapped: | 3 |
| General characteristics (Pervenets as built) | |
| Type: | Armored frigate |
| Displacement: | 3,412 tonnes (3,358 long tons) |
| Length: | 67.1 m (220 ft) |
| Beam: | 16.2 m (53 ft) |
| Draft: | 4.6 m (15 ft) |
| Installed power: | 1,067 ihp (796 kW) |
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| Speed: | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
| Complement: | 430 officers and crewmen |
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The Pervenets-class ironclads were a group of three armored frigates built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1860s. The ships were the first class of Russian ironclad ships, designed and built as such.
The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or incendiary shells as demonstrated by the Russian destruction of a Turkish squadron at the Battle of Sinope. The first ironclad battleship, La Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in November 1859. It was followed by the British Warrior-class ironclad. Russia was among the first countries to follow.
The Naval Ministry initially ordered two ships. The first ship in the class, Pervenets (Firstborn), was built in England and the second identical ship, Ne Tron Menia (Don't touch me) in Saint Petersburg. A few months later the decision was made to build a third ship, Kreml (Kremlin), at the Neva shipyards in Saint Petersburg.
The ships were smaller and slower than the contemporary British HMS Warrior and French La Gloire, and were in fact designated "Armored Battery", rather "Armored Frigate", such as the later Admiral Lazarev class. They had the same 114-millimetre (4.5 in) armour as Warrior. Kreml had a few modifications such as a teak layer under the armor and design-planned later upgrade to the 203-millimetre (8 in) guns.
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