 It also served as the main armament of the "Căpitan Nicolae Lascăr Bogdan" class of armored multi-purpose boats, each of the 8 boats carrying one gun.Russia adopted the Hotchkiss 3-pounder 5-barrel revolver cannon in the 1880s, and later adopted the less complicated single-barrel 43 caliber quick-firing weapon.The 5-barrel guns were equipped on the Ekaterina II-class battleships commissioned in 1889 but by 1892 the battleship "Dvenadsat Apostolov" and her successors had single-barrel weapons.