Russian cruiser Askold (1900)

300px Russian cruiser Askold
Career
Name:	Askold (Аскольд)
Namesake:	Askold
Operator:	Imperial Russian Navy
Launched:	3 March 1900
Out of service:	1917
Fate:	Scrapped 1922
General characteristics
Displacement:	5910 tons full load
Length:	131.2 m
Beam:	15m
Draught:	6.2 m
Propulsion:	3 shaft Triple expansion steam engines (VTE), 9 Shultz-Thonycroft Boilers - 19,650 hp
Speed:	23.8 knots (44.1 km/h)
Range:	5000 nm
Complement:	580 officers and crewmen
Armament:	12 - 6 inch guns 12 - 75 mm guns, 8 - 47 mm guns 2 - 37 mm guns per hour 6 - 15-inch (381 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:	Krupp armour, 2-4 inch sloping deck 6 inch conning tower

For other ships of the same name, see Askold.

The Russian cruiser Askold (Аскольд) was a protected cruiser built for the Imperial Russian Navy by Deutsche Werft Kiel. She was launched on 3 March 1900 and served in the Russian Pacific Fleet during both the Russo-Japanese war and World War I. She was interned in Shanghai after the Battle of the Yellow Sea and became flagship of the Siberian flotilla in 1906. She sailed to the Mediterranean in 1915 and participated in the Dardanelles operation with Russia's British allies. She was seized by the Royal Navy after the Russian Revolution and commissioned as the Glory IV. Returned to the Soviets after the Russian Civil war she was scrapped in Germany in 1922.

The ship was named after the legendary Varangian Askold. She had five thin funnels which led British sailors to nickname her Packet of Woodbines after the thin cigarettes smoked by them.

• Askold (1902).jpg

  Askold in East Indies (1902)

• Askold at Port Arthur (1904).jpg

  Askold at Port Arthur (1904)

• Askold during World War 1.jpg

  Askold during World War 1

See also

• Media related to Cruiser Askold at Wikimedia Commons
• Protected cruiser

References

• http://ship.bsu.by/main.asp?id=102480 - article in Russian Language
• http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/askold.htm - article in English with extensive photographs