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| Class overview | |
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| Operators: |  Russian Navy |
| Preceded by: | Pamiat Merkuria |
| Succeeded by: | None |
| Built: | 1902–1903 |
| In service: | 1903–1934 |
| In commission: | 1903–1920 |
| Planned: | 1 |
| Completed: | 1 |
| Scrapped: | 1 |
| Career (Russian Empire) |  |
| Name: | Almaz (Russian: Алмаз) |
| Namesake: | Diamond |
| Operator: | Imperial Russian Navy |
| Builder: | Baltic Works, Saint Petersburg |
| Laid down: | 25 September 1902[Note 1] |
| Launched: | 2 June 1903 |
| Completed: | December 1903 |
| Reclassified: | Seaplane tender, 1915 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1934 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Unprotected cruiser |
| Displacement: | 3,285 long tons (3,338 t) |
| Length: | 365 ft 8 in (111.5 m) o/a |
| Beam: | 43 ft (13.106400 m) |
| Draught: | 17 ft (5.181600 m) |
| Installed power: | 7,500 ihp (5,600 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
2 shafts, vertical triple expansion steam engines 16 Belleville water-tube boilers |
| Speed: | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Complement: | 336 |
| Armament: | 4 × 75 mm (3 in) guns 8 × 47 mm (2 in) guns |
Almaz (Russian: Алмаз - "Diamond") was a 2nd-class cruiser in the Imperial Russian Navy, built by Baltic Shipyard in Saint Petersburg, Russia,[1] as a yacht for Viceroy Alexeev,[2] the naval minister of the Russian Empire.[citation needed]
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[edit] Service history
Almaz was commissioned into the Baltic Fleet in 1903. She took part in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) and fought at the Battle of Tsushima. In 1907 she was reclassified as an Aviso. In 1911 she was part of the Black Sea Fleet, and was rebuilt as a seaplane tender in 1914. In 1920 she was interned at Bizerta with the remainder of Tsarist Wrangel Fleet.
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[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Mason, Herbert B. (1908). Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping. Chichester House. pp. p21. http://books.google.com/books?id=0O5AEbIB51sC&pg=PA21&dq=Almaz+cruiser&lr=lang_en&num=20&as_brr=3&ei=tsJySPinAqPujAHZnJWTAw.
- ^ Pleshakov, Konstantin (2002). The Tsar's last armada: the epic journey to the Battle of Tsushima. New York: Basic Books. pp. p64. ISBN 0-465-05791-8. http://books.google.com/books?id=i19MJULGbNcC&pg=PA64&vq=almaz&dq=Almaz+cruiser&lr=lang_en&num=20&as_brr=3&source=gbs_search_s&sig=ACfU3U3IeF_Ct3-NOXXM8a7m-tp5HEFJOg#PPA64,M1.
[edit] References
- Robert Gardiner, ed (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds (1984). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906-1922. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
- Layman, R. D. (1989). Before the Aircraft Carrier: The Development of Aviation Vessels 1859–1922. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-210-9.
- Watts, Anthony J. (1990). The Imperial Russian Navy. London: Arms and Armour. ISBN 0-85368-912-1.
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