Russian monitor Charodeika
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The Russian monitor Charodeika was the lead ship of her class of monitors built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1860s. She served for her entire career with the Baltic Fleet, mostly as a training ship. She was decommissioned in 1907, but was not broken up until 1911–12.
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Charodeika at anchor | |
History | |
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Russian Empire | |
Name | Charodeika |
Namesake | Sorceress |
Ordered | 26 January 1865[Note 1] |
Builder | Admiralty Shipyard, St. Petersburg |
Laid down | 6 June 1866 |
Launched | 12 September 1867 |
In service | 1869 |
Reclassified | As a coast-defense ironclad, 13 February 1892 |
Stricken | 7 April 1907 |
Fate | Scrapped 1911–12 |
General characteristics (as completed) | |
Class and type | Charodeika-class monitor |
Displacement | 2,100 long tons (2,134 t) |
Length | 206 ft (62.8 m) (waterline) |
Beam | 42 ft (12.8 m) |
Draft | 12 ft 7 in (3.8 m) |
Installed power | |
Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 Horizontal direct-action steam engines |
Speed | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
Complement | 172 officers and crewmen |
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