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MURAVYOV-AMURSKIY cruisers


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Муравьёв-Амурский [Muravyov-Amurskiy]   893 Schichau, Danzig, Germany 23.9.1913 11.4.1914 14.12.1914 // --- completed for Germany (Pillau)
Адмирал Невельской [Admiral Nevelskoy]   894 Schichau, Danzig, Germany 23.9.1913 21.11.1914 4.9.1915 // --- completed for Germany (Elbing)


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

4390

Displacement full, t

5252

Length, m

135.3 oa 134.3 wl

Breadth, m

13.6

Draught, m

5.98 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Marine steam turbines, 10 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

30000

Max speed, kts

27.5

Fuel, t

coal 620 + oil 580

Endurance, nm(kts)

4300(12)

Armour, mm

deck: 80 - 20, slopes: 40, CT: 75, shields: 50

Armament

8 x 1 - 130/53, 4 x 1 - 63/36 Obukhov, 5 - 450 TT (1 bow, 4 beam), 150 mines

Complement

359



Standard scale images


<i>Pillau</i> 1917
Pillau 1917


Project history

Authorised under the 1912 Programme for the Far Eastern station, they reflected the Russian view on the light type of protected cruiser, in common use in these waters before the Russo-Japanese War. In all respects they were a reduced version of the Svetlana class being built in home yards at that time. Their silhouettes were standartised with those of the mentioned cruisers and 35kts destroyers. Both ships were requisitioned by the German Government on 5 August 1914 and completed for the Kaiserliche Marine as Elbing and Pillau respectively.

Ship protection

Protective deck (2 steel layers and 1 Krupp steel layer) above machinery had 80mm flat and 40mm slopes, ship ends were protected by 20mm deck with 40mm slopes. CT had 75mm sides and 50mm roof, guns had 50mm shields.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.