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Russian monitor Uragan

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Sister ship Koldun, in the late 1870s or early 1880s
History
Russian Empire
NameUragan (Ураган)
NamesakeHurricane
Ordered23 March 1863[Note 1]
BuilderNew Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg
Cost1,105,800 rubles
Laid down1 December 1863
Launched27 May 1864
In service1865
Out of service6 July 1900
ReclassifiedAs coastal defense ship, 13 February 1892
Stricken17 August 1900
FateConverted into a coal barge, 1903, and scrapped around 1918
General characteristics
Class and typeTemplate:Sclass- monitor
Displacement1,500–1,600 long tons (1,524–1,626 t)
Length201 ft (61.3 m)
Beam46 ft (14.0 m)
Draft10.16–10.84 ft (3.1–3.3 m)
Installed power
  • 340–500 ihp (254–373 kW)
  • 2 rectangular Morton boilers
Propulsion1 shaft, 1 × 2-cylinder horizontal direct-acting steam engine
Speed6.5 knots (12.0 km/h; 7.5 mph)
Range1,440 nmi (2,670 km; 1,660 mi) at 6 knots (11 km/h; 6.9 mph)
Complement96–110
Armament
  • 1865: 2 × 9 in (229 mm) smoothbore guns
  • 1868: 2 × 15 in (381 mm) smoothbore Rodman guns
  • 1873: 2 × 9 in (229 mm) rifled guns
Armor

Uragan (Template:Lang-ru) was an Template:Sclass- monitor built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the mid-1860s.

Notes

  1. ^ All dates used in this article are New Style.

Footnotes

References

  • Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
  • McLaughlin, Stephen (2012). "Russia's American Monitors: The Uragan Class". In John Jordan (ed.). Warship 2012. London: Conway. pp. 98–112. ISBN 978-1-84486-156-9.