The Admiral Kornilov was a protected cruiser

Protected cruiser

The protected cruiser is a type of naval cruiser of the late 19th century, so known because its armoured deck offered protection for vital machine spaces from shrapnel caused by exploding shells above...

 of the Russian Imperial Navy.

The ship was laid down in 1886 and launched in 1887 at St. Nazaire in France. She was commissioned in 1888. The Kornilov was 113 meters long and 14.8 meters wide, had a draught of 7.8 meters and featured a large ram bow. She displaced 5,863 tons. The armament consisted of 14 x 6-inch (152 mm) guns

6 inch 35 caliber naval gun 1877

6 inch 35 caliber naval gun 1877 was a 152 mm naval gun used by Russian Empire. The gun was used from 1887 as battleship secondary armament and cruiser armament. The gun was mostly replaced by newer 6 inch 45 caliber Canet gun 1892 by Russo-Japanese War, but was still used on some ships...

, 6 x 3-pounders (47 mm) and 10 x 1-pounders (37 mm) plus six 15 inches (381 mm) torpedo

Torpedo

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 tubes. During a refit in 1904/05 the main armament was changed to 10 x 6 inches (152.4 mm) guns. The deck armor was between 1 and 2.5 inches (63.5 mm), the armor at the command tower was 3 inches (76.2 mm). Two horizontal triple-expansion steam engine

Steam engine

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s with eight boiler

Boiler

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s gave her 5,977 ihp

IHP

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 and a top speed of 17.6 knots (34.5 km/h). She had two shafts and a bunker capacity of 1.000 tons of coal. The crew numbered 479 men.

The Admiral Kornilov was unique to the Russian Navy but resembled the large protected cruisers Tage and Amiral Cecelle built at the same time for the French Navy. These were unusually long cruisers at the time, although surpassed in 1892 by the British Blake

HMS Blake (1889)

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-class.

The ship was used as a torpedo training ship from 1908 and was stricken from the active list in 1911.

External links

• http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmore/russia/cruisers/admiralkornilov/admiralkornilov.html
• http://www.neva.ru./EXPO96/arm/adk.html