Tikhiy okean class minelayer

Tikhiy okean-class Minelayer
Class overview
Name	Tikhiy okean-class Minelayer
Operators	Far Eastern Imperial Navy
Built	4
Active	2
Destroyed	2
General Characteristics
Type	Minelayer
Displacement	2600 tons standard 2900 tons full load
Length	92.7 metres (304 ft)
Beam	14.9 metres (49 ft)
Draught	5.2 metres (17 ft)
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 vertical triple-expansion steam engines
Power	12 coal-fired boiler 4,900 ihp (3,700 kW)
Speed	18 kts
Range	3600 nm at 10 kts
Complement	305
Armament	2 × 120mm/45 KO 1892 g gun 4 × 76.2mm/40 KO 1900 g gun 320 mines

Development

The Tikhiy okean-class minelayers were the first purpose-built, ocean-going minelayers in the world. They were initially classified as Mine cruisers, but were later reclassified as Minelayers. Initially two units were build of wich both sunk at the Far Eastern-Japanese war. However as their performance was success until their lose, two aditional units were constructed after the war.

Characteristics

These ships were similar to small cruisers of the time. They were intended to drop their mines in high speed and thus have considerable overhang in the stern so that mines could be laid without interfering the propellers.

Ships in class

Name	Builder	Laid down	Launch Date	Entered Service	Fate
Tikhiy okean	Voenno-morskaya Verf, Dalny	January 1898	November 1898	May 1901	Sunk december 1904
Zheltoye more	Voenno-morskaya Verf, Dalny	July 1898	May 1899	August 1901	Sunk February 1904
Okhotskoye more	Voenno-morskaya Verf, Dalny	June 1905	July 1906	October 1907	Extant in 1920
Beringovo more	Voenno-morskaya Verf, Dalny	July 1906	August 1907	November 1908	Extant in 1920

See Also

Ships of Far Eastern Imperial Navy 1920