Shilka class light cruiser

Shilka class Light Cruiser
Class overview
Name	Shilka class Light Cruiser
Operators	Far Eastern Imperial Navy
Planned	9
Built	4
Building	5
Active	5
General Characteristics
Type	Light cruiser
Displacement	7600 tons standard 8250 tons full load
Length	163.2 metres (535 ft)
Beam	15.7 metres (52 ft)
Draught	5.8 metres (19 ft)
Propulsion	4 shafts, 4 KhTGZ steam turbines
Power	14 watertube boilers 55,500 ihp (41,400 kW)
Speed	29 kts
Range	4000 nm at 10 kts
Complement	630
Armament	12 × 152mm/52 KO 1908 g gun 6 x 76.2mm/40 KO 1915 g gun 2x3 457mm torpedo tubes
Armour	Belt: 76 mm Deck: 25+20 mm conning tower: 76 mm

Development

After introducing the new type of light cruisers of the LK 1908 Amur class in fleet scouting and screening roles, plans for new improved variants were drafted in the outbreak of world war I. With the increased size and range of foreign torpedoboats (eg. destroyers), it was felt that the Amur design was insufficient to protect the fleet against the larger destroyers. The Shilka class evolved from these new requirements. It was considerably larger more powerful design. Shilka class fielded 12 guns of which 4 was fitted in superfiring centerline positions fore and aft. Machinery was completely domestic with the KhGTZ turbines substituting the Vulcan-AEG turbines from the Amur design. Total of 9 units were ordered but only 4 were completed before the revolution.

Ships in class

Name	Builder	Laid down	Launch Date	Entered Service	Fate
Shilka	Dalzavod, Vladivostok	September 1915	December 1917	November 1918	Extant in 1920
Yalu	Dalzavod, Vladivostok	September 1915	December 1917	December 1918	Extant in 1920
Bureya	Dalzavod, Vladivostok	May 1918	December 1919	Fitting out	Under construction in 1920
Amgun	Dalzavod, Vladivostok	May 1918	December 1919	Fitting out	Under construction in 1920
Khor	Novaya Verf, Dalny	September 1915	December 1917	January 1919	Extant in 1920
Zeya	Novaya Verf, Dalny	September 1915	November 1917	November 1918	Extant in 1920
Hun	Novaya Verf, Dalny	July 1918	January 1919	Fitting out	Under construction in 1920
Lyahks	Novaya Verf, Dalny	July 1918	January 1919	Fitting out	Under construction in 1920
Taizhi	Novaya Verf, Dalny	September 1918	May 1919	Fitting out	Under construction in 1920

See Also

Ships of Far Eastern Imperial Navy 1920