Russian monitor Novgorod
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A scale model of Novgorod as she appeared after 1875
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| Class overview | |
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| Preceded by: | Petr Veliky |
| Succeeded by: | Vitse-admiral Popov |
| Built: | 1871–74 |
| In service: | 1874–1903 |
| Completed: | 1 |
| Scrapped: | 1 |
| History | |
 Russian Empire
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| Name: | Novgorod |
| Namesake: | Novgorod |
| Builder: | New Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg |
| Cost: | 2,830,000 rubles (excluding armament) |
| Laid down: | 29 December 1871 |
| Launched: | 2 June 1873 |
| Completed: | 1874 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 May 1903 |
| Reclassified: | As a coast-defense ironclad, 13 February 1892 |
| Struck: | 3 July 1903 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, December 1911 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type: | Monitor |
| Displacement: | 2,491 long tons (2,531 t) |
| Length: | 101 ft (30.8 m) |
| Beam: | 101 ft (30.8 m) |
| Draught: | 13 ft 6 in (4.1 m) |
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| Propulsion: | 6 shafts, 6 compound-expansion steam engines |
| Speed: | 6.5 knots (12.0 km/h; 7.5 mph) |
| Range: | 480 nautical miles (890 km; 550 mi) at full speed |
| Complement: | 151 officers and crewmen |
| Armament: | 2 × 11-inch (279 mm) rifled muzzle-loading guns |
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Novgorod (Russian: Новгород) was a monitor built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1870s. She was one of the most unusual warships ever constructed, and still survives in popular naval myth as one of the worst warships ever built. A more balanced assessment shows that she was relatively effective in her designed role as a coast-defence ship. The hull was circular to reduce draught while allowing the ship to carry much more armour and a heavier armament than other ships of the same size. Novgorod played a minor role in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 and was reclassified as a coast-defence ironclad in 1892. The ship was decommissioned in 1903 and used as a storeship until she was sold for scrap in 1911.
In 1868, the Scottish shipbuilder John Elder published an article that advocated that widening the beam of a ship would reduce the area that needed to be protected and allow it to carry thicker armour and heavier, more powerful guns in comparison to a normal ship. In addition such a ship would have a shallower draught and only a moderate increase in power would be required to match the speed of a normal ship. Sir Edward Reed, then Director of Naval Construction of the Royal Navy, agreed with Elder's conclusions. Rear-Admiral Andrei Alexandrovich Popov of the Imperial Russian Navy further expanded on Elder's concept by broadening the ship so that it was actually circular and he made the design flat-bottomed, unlike Elder's convex hull, to minimise its draught.
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