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SVETLANA 1st class cruiser (1898)


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Svetlana

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Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Светлана [Svetlana]     F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre, France 10.7.1895 12/1896 2.4.1898 sunk 28.5.1905


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

3770

Displacement full, t3862
Length, m

101.0 wl

Breadth, m

13.0

Draught, m

5.69 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 18 Belleville boilers

Power, h. p.

8500

Max speed, kts

21.6

Fuel, t

coal 820

Endurance, nm(kts)

3500(10)

Armour, mmNickel steel; deck: 38 with 63mm slopes, ammunition hoists: 51, CT: 102
Armament

6 x 1 - 152/44 Canet, 10 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 - 381 TT (aw, beam), 20 mines

Complement

401



Standard scale images


<i>Svetlana </i>1898
Svetlana 1898


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<i>Svetlana</i>
Svetlana


Project history

A three-funnelled cruiser with a pronounced ram bow, and sheathed and coppered, the Svetlana was in peacetime fitted out as a yacht for the Grand Duke commanding the Russian Navy, and had a considerable amount of woodwork installed. Four of the 6in guns were in main deck sponsons and two fore and aft on the upper deck.

Ship protection

There was a 38mm deck with 63mm slopes, a 51mm hood over the engine room and 127mm glacis to the hatches. The CT was 102mm and the ammunition tube to the forecastle 152mm gun and the broadside patches protecting the TT were 51mm.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Svetlana was sunk 28.5.1905 on the day after Tsushima by Japanese cruisers Otowa and Niitaka.