:Russian ironclad Sevastopol
{{Short description|Imperial Russian Navy's 58-gun wooden frigate}}
{{other ships|Russian ship Sevastopol}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Sevastopol1861-1886.jpg |Ship caption=A drawing of Sevastopol at anchor }} {{Infobox ship class overview |Name= |Builders= |Operators={{navy|Russia}} |Class before=None |Class after={{ship|Russian ironclad|Petropavlovsk | 2}}
|Cost= |Built range=1861–65 |In service=1865–86 |In commission range= |Total ships completed=1 |Total ships scrapped=1 }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=Russian Empire |Ship flag=50px |Ship name= Sevastopol ({{langx|ru|Севастополь}}) |Ship namesake=Siege of Sevastopol |Ship operator=Imperial Russian Navy |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=Kronstadt Shipyard, Kronstadt |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number= |Ship way number= |Ship laid down=7 September 1860All dates used in this article are Old Style. |Ship launched=12 August 1864 |Ship sponsor= |Ship decommissioned=15 June 1885 |Ship commissioned=8 July 1865 |Ship reclassified=As training ship, 23 March 1880 |Ship struck=11 October 1886 |Ship fate=Sold for scrap, May 1897 |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption=(as built) |Ship type=Armored frigate |Ship displacement={{convert|6275|LT|t|0}} |Ship length={{convert|300|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|50|ft|4|in|m|1|abbr=on}} |Ship draft={{convert|24|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} |Ship power=*{{convert|3090|ihp|lk=in|abbr=on}}
|Ship propulsion=1 shaft, 1 Horizontal return-connecting-rod steam engine |Ship speed={{convert|13|kn|lk=in}} |Ship sail plan=Schooner |Ship complement=607 officers and crewmen |Ship armament=32 × 60-pounder smoothbore guns |Ship armor=*Belt: {{convert|3 |
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The Russian ironclad Sevastopol ({{langx|ru|Севастополь}}) was ordered as a 58-gun wooden frigate by the Imperial Russian Navy in the early 1860s, but was converted while under construction into a 32-gun armored frigate. She served in the Baltic Fleet and was reclassified as a training ship in 1880. Sevastopol was decommissioned five years later, but was not sold for scrap until 1897.
Description
Sevastopol was {{convert|300|ft|m|1}} long between perpendiculars, with a beam of {{convert |50|ft|4|in|m|1}} and a draft of {{convert|22|ft|2|in|m|1}} (forward) and {{convert|24|ft|m|1}} (aft). She displaced {{convert|6135|LT|t}} and she was fitted with a blunt iron ram at her bow.Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 173 Sevastopol was considered to be a good sea boat and her total crew numbered 607 officers and enlisted men.Russian Ironclad Frigates Sevastopol and Petropavlovsk, p. 415
The ship was fitted with a horizontal return-connecting-rod steam engine built by the Izhora Works of Saint Petersburg. It drove a single two-bladed propeller using steam that was provided by an unknown number of rectangular boilers. During the ship's sea trials, the engine produced a total of {{convert|3088|ihp|lk=in}} and gave the ship a maximum speed of {{convert|13.95|kn|lk=in}}. The ship carried a maximum of {{convert|400|LT|t}} of coal, but her endurance is unknown.Tredea & Sozea, p. 414 She was schooner-rigged with three masts.
As a heavy frigate, Sevastopol was intended to be armed with 54 of the most powerful guns available to the Russians, the {{convert|7.72|in|adj=on|0}} 60-pounder smoothbore gun, and four long 36-pounder smoothbores. Her armament was revised when she was converted to an ironclad and she was completed with an armament of thirty-two 60-pounder guns, four on the upper deck as chase guns and 28 on the lower deck. In 1868, one chase gun and two guns on the lower deck were replaced by {{convert|8|in|0|adj=on}} rifled guns and 11 more of the 60-pounders were replaced by seven 8-inch guns two years later. In 1877, her armament was changed again to 14 eight-inch guns on the lower deck and two more on the upper deck. Also mounted on the upper deck were one {{convert|6|in|0|adj=on}} and ten {{convert|3.4|in|0|adj=on}} rifled guns.
The entire ship's side was protected with wrought-iron armor that extended {{convert|5|ft|2|in|m|1}} below the waterline.Watts, p. 67 It was {{convert|4.5|in|0}} thick amidships, backed by {{convert|10|in|0}} of teak, that thinned to {{convert|3|in|0}}, backed by six inches of teak, in steps beginning {{convert|50|ft|m|1}} from the ship's ends.
Construction and service
Sevastopol, named for the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War,Silverstone, p. 384 was laid down on 7 September 1860 as a 58-gun heavy frigate at Kronstadt. She was reordered as (converted into) a 32-gun armored frigate on 26 July 1862 while still under construction. The ship was launched on 12 August 1864 and commissioned on 8 July 1865. In 1870, repairs to her stern were made by raising her at the stern using air bags.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Raising Sunken Vessels |date=30 October 1875 |issue=28460 |page=4 |column=E }} She served with the Baltic Fleet for her entire career and was reclassified as a training ship on 23 March 1880. Sevastopol was decommissioned on 15 June 1885 and sold for breaking up in May 1897.
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References
- {{cite book|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905|editor1-last=Chesneau |editor1-first=Roger|editor2-last=Kolesnik|editor2-first=Eugene M.|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=Greenwich, UK|year=1979|isbn=0-8317-0302-4|url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/conwaysallworlds0000unse_l2e2 |name-list-style=amp}}
- {{cite journal|year=1970|title=Russian Ironclad Frigates Sevastopol and Petropavlovsk |journal=Warship International|volume=VII|issue=4|pages=414–415}}
- {{cite book|last=Silverstone|first=Paul H.|title=Directory of the World's Capital Ships|year=1984|publisher=Hippocrene Books|location=New York|isbn=0-88254-979-0}}
- {{cite book|last1=Treadea|first1=John|last2=Sozaev|first2=Eduard|title=Russian Warships in the Age of Sail, 1696–1860: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|year=2010|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|location=Barnsley, UK|isbn=978-1-84832-058-1}}
- {{cite book|last=Watts|first=Anthony J.|title=The Imperial Russian Navy|publisher=Arms and Armour|location=London|year=1990|isbn=0-85368-912-1}}
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