Vitiaz-class cruiser

Class overview
Rynda
Operators:	Imperial Russian Navy
Preceded by:	None
Succeeded by:	Admiral Kornilov
Built:	1883–1887
In commission:	1886–1914
Completed:	2
Lost:	1
Scrapped:	1
General characteristics
Type:	Protected cruiser
Displacement:	3,537 long tons (3,594 t)
Length:	260 ft 6 in (79.4 m)
Beam:	45 ft (13.7 m)
Draft:	19 ft 11 in (6.1 m)
Installed power:	approximately 3,000 ihp (2,200 kW)
Propulsion:	1 shaft, 1 Compound steam engine, 10 cylindrical water-tube boilers
Speed:	14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement:	330 officers and crewmen
Armament:	10 × 1 - 6-inch (152 mm)/28 guns 4 × 1 - 3.4-inch (86 mm) guns 8 × 1 - 37-millimeter (1.5 in)/23 guns 3 × 15-inch (381 mm) submerged torpedo tubes
Armor:	Deck: 1.5 in (38 mm)

The Vitiaz-class ships were a pair of partially protected cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the mid-1880s.

Footnotes

Robert Gardiner, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
Watts, Anthony J. (1990). The Imperial Russian Navy. London: Arms and Armour. ISBN 0-85368-912-1.

Vitiaz-class cruisers

Vitiaz Rynda / Osvoboditel

Preceded by: None Followed by: Admiral Kornilov

List of cruisers of the Imperial Navy

Cruisers of the Imperial Russian Navy

Armored cruisers	General-Admiral Minin^S Vladimir Monomakh^S Dmitrii Donskoi^S Admiral Nakhimov^S Pamiat Azova^S Rurik^S Rossia^S Gromoboi^S Bayan Rurik^S

Protected and Light cruisers	Vitiaz Admiral Kornilov^S Svetlana^S Pallada Varyag^S Askold^S Bogatyr Novik^S Boyarin^S Izumrud Muraviev Amurski Svetlana Admiral Nakhimov

Unprotected cruisers	Pamiat Merkuria^S Almaz^S

List of cruisers of the Russian Navy ^S - Single ship of class

Russian naval ship classes of the Russo-Japanese War

Pre-dreadnought battleships	Imperator Aleksandr II Navarin ^S Sissoi Veliky ^S Petropavlovsk Peresvet Tsesarevich ^S Borodino Retvizan ^S

Coastal defense ships	Admiral Ushakov

Armored cruisers	Vladimir Monomakh ^S Dmitrii Donskoi ^S Admiral Nakhimov ^S Rurik ^S Rossia ^S Gromoboi ^S Bayan

Protected cruisers	Svetlana ^S Pallada Varyag ^S Askold ^S Bogatyr Novik ^S Boyarin ^S Izumrud

Unprotected cruisers	Almaz ^S

Armed merchant cruisers	Ural ^S

Submarines	Delfin ^S Som Kasatka

S Single ship of class C Completed after the war

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