Baikal class gunboat

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Image:KL Baikal

Baikal-class Gunboat
Class overview
Name Baikal-class Gunboat
Operators Far Eastern Imperial Navy
Built 1
Active 1
General Characteristics
Type Gunboat
Displacement
  • 1820 tons standard
  • 2450 tons full load
Length 75.4 metres (247 ft)
Beam 13.1 metres (43 ft)
Draught 3.8 metres (12 ft)
Propulsion 2 shafts, 2 vertical triple-expansion steam engines
Power
  • 8 coal-fired boiler
  • 2,100 ihp (1,600 kW)
Speed 14 kts
Range 1200 nm at 7 kts
Complement 189
Armament
  • 4 × 120mm/45 KO 1892 g gun
  • 4 × 37/40 KO 1892 g gun
  • 20 mines
Armour
  • Belt: 127 - 70 mm
  • Deck: 38 - 25 mm
  • Conning Tower: 25 mm

  • Development

    Armoured, ocean-going gunboat build to serve in the colonial waters. Stationed in Hawaii and was the sole pre-1895 build gunboat that survived the Far Eastern - Japanese war.


    Ships in class

    Name Builder Laid down Launch Date Entered Service Fate
    Baikal Voenno-morskaya Verf, Dalny July 1894 June 1895 May 1897 Extant in 1920


    See Also

    Ships of Far Eastern Imperial Navy 1920