Russian ironclad Sevastopol
A drawing of Sevastopol at anchor
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| Class overview | |
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| Operators: |
 Russian Navy
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| Preceded by: | None |
| Succeeded by: | Petropavlovsk |
| Built: | 1861–65 |
| Completed: | 1 |
| Scrapped: | 1 |
| History | |
 Russian Empire
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| Name: | Sevastopol (Russian: Севастополь) |
| Namesake: | Siege of Sevastopol |
| Operator: | Imperial Russian Navy |
| Builder: | Kronstadt Shipyard, Kronstadt |
| Laid down: | 7 September 1860 |
| Launched: | 12 August 1864 |
| Commissioned: | 8 July 1865 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 June 1885 |
| Reclassified: | As training ship, 23 March 1880 |
| Struck: | 11 October 1886 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, May 1897 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type: | Armored frigate |
| Displacement: | 6,275 long tons (6,376 t) |
| Length: | 300 ft (91.4 m) |
| Beam: | 50 ft 4 in (15.3 m) |
| Draft: | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
| Installed power: | |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, 1 Horizontal return-connecting-rod steam engine |
| Sail plan: | Schooner |
| Speed: | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement: | 607 officers and crewmen |
| Armament: | 32 × 60-pounder smoothbore guns |
| Armor: | |
The Russian ironclad Sevastopol (Russian: Севастополь) was ordered as a 58-gun wooden frigate by the Imperial Russian Navy in the early 1860s, but was converted while under construction into a 32-gun armored frigate. She served in the Baltic Fleet and was reclassified as a training ship in 1880. Sevastopol was decommissioned five years later, but was not sold for scrap until 1897.
Sevastopol was 300 feet (91.4 m) long between perpendiculars, with a beam of 50 feet 4 inches (15.3 m) and a draft of 22 feet 2 inches (6.8 m) (forward) and 24 feet (7.3 m) (aft). She displaced 6,135 long tons (6,233 t) and she was fitted with a blunt iron ram at her bow.Sevastopol was considered to be a good sea boat and her total crew numbered 607 officers and enlisted men.
The ship was fitted with a horizontal return-connecting-rod steam engine built by the Izhora Works of Saint Petersburg. It drove a single two-bladed propeller using steam that was provided by an unknown number of rectangular boilers. During the ship's sea trials, the engine produced a total of 3,088 indicated horsepower (2,303 kW) and gave the ship a maximum speed of 13.95 knots (25.84 km/h; 16.05 mph). The ship carried a maximum of 400 long tons (410 t) of coal, but her endurance is unknown. She was schooner-rigged with three masts.
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