Russian cruiser General-Admiral (1873)
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| 300px The Russian armored cruiser General-Admiral | |
| Career (Russia) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | General Admiral |
| Laid down: | 1870 |
| Launched: | 1873 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1938 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | General-Admiral-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | 4,600 tons |
| Speed: | 12.3 knots |
| Range: | 6,000 miles at 10 knots |
| Armament: |
6 x 8" guns 1 x 6" gun 16 x machine guns 2 x torpedo tubes |
| Armor: | 6" armor belt |
General-Admiral was a warship of the Imperial Russian Navy, and is generally considered as the first true armored cruiser.[1] She had a sister ship, the Gerzog Edinburgski.
She was launched in 1873, and scrapped in 1938.
Footnotes
- ↑ Beeler, p222
References
- Beeler, John Francis (1997). British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era. San Francisco: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0804729816.
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