Of the Admiral Ushakov-class. Laid down at the Baltic Works, St. Petersburg, Russia on 2 August 1892, launched on 22 August 1894, commissioned in 1896, captured by the Japanese on 28 May 1905, commissioned in the Japanese service on 6 June 1905, reclassified as submarine tender on 1 April 1921, stricken on 10 October 1935 and sunk while used as a target during gun exercises off Kushima, Miyazaki in September 1936.
With a displacement of 4.165 long tons/4,232 tons (normal)-4.270 long tons/4.339 tons (maximum0 and as dimensions 84,6 (waterline) x 15,88 x 5,49 metres or 277.7 x 52.1 x 18 feet. Two shaft vertical steam engines and 4 boilers supplied 5.250 shp/3.910 kW allowing a speed of 16 knots. With a coal bunker capacity of 250 ton and a speed of 10 knots was her range 3.000 nautical miles. Her crew numbered 406 men. The armour consisted of a 25cm/9.8” thick belt, a 7,5cm/3” thick deck while the turrets were protected by 20cm/7.9” armour/ The armament consisted of 4-25,4cm/10” guns, 4-12cm/4.7” guns, 1-4,7cm/1.9” guns, 12-3,7cm/1.5” guns and 4-45,7cm/18” torpedo tubes.
