russian monitor russian monitor lead ship class monitors built imperial_russian_navy 1860s served entire career training ship decommissioned broken design description feet long waterline beam feet maximum draft feet inches ship designed displace long tons turned overweight actually displaced long tons crew numbered officers crewmen ship simple horizontal direct acting steam engines driving single propeller engines designed produce total indicated horsepower steam provided coal fired rectangular fire tube boilers achieved ihp speed approximately knots mph sea trials carried maximum long tons coal boilers initially armed pair inch rifled model guns forward gun turret pair inch guns aft turret guns replaced pair inch rifled guns inch guns replaced turn longer powerful inch guns light guns use torpedo boats known fitted aboard ship 1870s received pounder inch guns mounted turret tops variety smaller guns included millimeter quick firing guns inch guns single millimeter hotchkiss guns millimeter hotchkiss revolving cannon millimeter guns ship complete waterline belt wrought iron inches thick amidships inches bow inches stern armor backed inches teak circular turrets protected armor inches thick walls ship oval conning tower inches thick deck inch thick amidships reduced inches ends ship construction service ordered january construction began june admiralty shipyard saint_petersburg formal keel laying june launched september completed cost construction considerably delayed late deliveries drawings material death original builder ship served entire career later assigned training detachment reclassified coast defense ironclad february remained service march turned port disposal ship stricken navy list april finally scrapped
Russian monitor Charodeika