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MININ armoured frigate (1878)


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Minin after reboilering

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Минин [Minin], 3.1909- Ладога [Ladoga]     Semyannikov and Poletika Works, St. Petersburg 24.9.1866 3.11.1869 2/1878 TS 3.1906, minelayer 1.1909, sunk 14.8.1915


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

6136
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

89.9 wl
Breadth, m

15.1
Draught, m

7.75 max
No of shafts

1
Machinery

1 VC, 12 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.

5290
Max speed, kts

14
Fuel, t

coal 1000
Endurance, nm(kts)

1520(9)
Armour, mm

compound; belt: 178 - 152, deck: 25 (steel)
Armament

4 x 1 - 203/19 obr. 1867, 12 x 1 - 152/23 obr. 1867, 4 x 1 - 87/17 4pdr obr. 1867, 8 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 2 - 381 TT (aw, beam), 150 mines
Complement

545


Standard scale images


<i>Minin</i> 1878
Minin 1878
<i>Ladoga </i>1914
Ladoga 1914
<i>Minin </i>1895
Minin 1895


Graphics


<i>Minin </i>after reboilering
Minin after reboilering
minelayer <i>Ladoga</i>  
minelayer Ladoga  


Project history

Minin was originally launched as a low freeboard turret ship, intended to be similar to the Captain with full rig, 4 279mm guns in twin turrets and 4 152mm, 2 on the forecastle and 2 on the poop. After the disaster to the Captain in 1871 her completion was stopped and she was reconstructed as an armoured cruiser. The Minin was sheathed and coppered and heavily ship-rigged. Her details were altered several times.

Ship protection

There was a complete waterline belt from 0.6m above lo 1.5m below lwl with a 25mm steel deck at the belt upper edge, but the guns were unprotected on the upper deck with the 203mm in sponsons.

Modernizations

1880s: - 4 x 1 - 203/19, 12 x 1 - 152/23, 4 x 5 - 37/17; + 4 x 1 - 203/28 obr. 1877, 12 x 1 - 152/25 obr. 1877, 2 x 1 - 63/17 Baranovski, 8 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss

1893: - 12 x 1 - 152/25; + 6 x 1 - 152/44 Canet, 6 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 4 x 1 - 7.6/94; machinery was replaced by 1 VTE and 18 Belleville boilers (4000hp, 12.2kts)

1909, as minelayer was armed with 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 1080 mines, normal displacement became 6100t.

Naval service

Minin was reclassified as TS in March 1906, converted to minelayer Ladoga in January 1909 and sunk 14.8.1915 in the Gulf of Finland by the mine laid by German submarine UC4.