Baikal class gunboat

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