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Opyt

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Опыт [Opyt], 5.1883- Мина [Mina]			Carr & McFerson, St. Petersburg	8.1861	9.10.1861	5.1862	sold 3.1866, re-commissioned 2.1870, harbour vessel 8.1907

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	270
Displacement full, t
Length, m	37.7
Breadth, m	6.78
Draught, m	1.83 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 HP, 1 boiler
Power, h. p.	195
Max speed, kts	9
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)	1100(6)
Armour, mm	wrought iron; breastwork: 114
Armament	1 x 1 - 196/12 60pdr SBML
Complement	28

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Project history

Iron-hulled and originally armoured. A report of 1901 states that she then had the engines formerly in TB78 and TB81.

Ship protection

The gun was protected by 114mm breastwork.

Modernizations

1860s: - 1 x 1 - 196/12; + 1 x 1 - 279/17 obr. 1867, 2 x 1 - 87/17 4pdr obr. 1867

1870: was armed with 2 x 1 - 87/17 4pdr obr. 1867

Naval service

Opyt was disarmed in March 1866 and transferred to private owner for service as icebreaker but in February 1870 armed again and re-commissioned. In January 1906 she was laid up but in August 1907 recommissioned as harbour vessel, in July 1915 as survey vessel. In March 1918 she was transferred to Red Finnish Republic and captured by White Finnish troops in April 1918 at Helsingfors. In 1922 Mina was sold by Soviet Government for scrap in situ.