Russian monitor Charodeika
Charodeika at anchor
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 Russian Empire
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| Name: | Charodeika |
| Namesake: | Sorceress |
| Ordered: | 26 January 1865 |
| Builder: | Admiralty Shipyard, St. Petersburg |
| Laid down: | 6 June 1866 |
| Launched: | 12 September 1867 |
| In service: | 1869 |
| Reclassified: | As a coast-defense ironclad, 13 February 1892 |
| Struck: | 7 April 1907 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1911–12 |
| General characteristics (as completed) | |
| Class and type: | Charodeika-class monitor |
| Displacement: | 2,100 long tons (2,134 t) |
| Length: | 206 ft (62.8 m) (waterline) |
| Beam: | 42 ft (12.8 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft 7 in (3.8 m) |
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| Propulsion: | 2 shafts, 2 Horizontal direct-action steam engines |
| Speed: | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
| Complement: | 172 officers and crewmen |
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The Russian monitor Charodeika was the lead ship of her class of monitors built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1860s. She served for her entire career with the Baltic Fleet, mostly as a training ship. She was decommissioned in 1907, but was not broken up until 1911–12.
Charodeika was 206 feet (62.8 m) long at the waterline. She had a beam of 42 feet (12.8 m) and a maximum draft of 12 feet 7 inches (3.8 m). The ship was designed to displace 1,882 long tons (1,912 t), but turned out to be overweight and actually displaced 2,100 long tons (2,100 t). Her crew numbered 13 officers and 171 crewmen in 1877.
The ship had two simple horizontal direct-acting steam engines, each driving a single propeller. The engines were designed to produce a total of 900 indicated horsepower (670 kW) using steam provided by two coal-fired rectangular fire-tube boilers, but only achieved 786 ihp (586 kW) and a speed of approximately 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph) during her sea trials. She carried a maximum of 250 long tons (254 t) of coal for her boilers.
Charodeika was initially armed with a pair of nine-inch (229 mm) rifled Model 1867 guns in the forward gun turret and a pair of fifteen-inch (381 mm) smoothbore Rodman guns in the aft turret. The Rodman guns were replaced by a pair of Obukhov 9-inch (229 mm) rifled guns in 1871 and all of the nine-inch guns were replaced in their turn by longer, more powerful nine-inch Obukhov guns in 1878–79. No light guns for use against torpedo boats are known to have been fitted aboard the ship before the 1870s when she received 4 four-pounder 3.4-inch (86 mm) guns mounted on the turret tops as well as a variety of smaller guns that included 45-millimeter (1.8 in) Engström quick-firing (QF) guns, 1-inch (25 mm) Nordenfelt guns, single-barreled QF 47-millimeter (1.9 in) Hotchkiss guns, QF 37-millimeter (1.5 in) Hotchkiss revolving cannon, and 25-millimeter (0.98 in) Palmcrantz-Nordenfelt guns.
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