Russian monitor Uragan

Sister ship Koldun, in the late 1870s or early 1880s
History
Russian Empire
Name:	Uragan (Ураган)
Namesake:	Hurricane
Ordered:	23 March 1863[Note 1]
Builder:	New Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg
Cost:	1,105,800 rubles
Laid down:	1 December 1863
Launched:	27 May 1864
In service:	1865
Out of service:	6 July 1900
Reclassified:	As coastal defense ship, 13 February 1892
Struck:	17 August 1900
Fate:	Converted into a coal barge, 1903, and scrapped around 1918
General characteristics
Class & type:	Uragan-class monitor
Displacement:	1,500–1,600 long tons (1,524–1,626 t)
Length:	201 ft (61.3 m)
Beam:	46 ft (14.0 m)
Draft:	10.16–10.84 ft (3.1–3.3 m)
Installed power:	340–500 ihp (254–373 kW) 2 rectangular Morton boilers
Propulsion:	1 shaft, 1 × 2-cylinder horizontal direct-acting steam engine
Speed:	6.5 knots (12.0 km/h; 7.5 mph)
Range:	1,440 nmi (2,670 km; 1,660 mi) at 6 knots (11 km/h; 6.9 mph)
Complement:	96–110
Armament:	1865: 2 × 9 in (229 mm) smoothbore guns 1868: 2 × 15 in (381 mm) smoothbore Rodman guns 1873: 2 × 9 in (229 mm) rifled guns
Armor:	Hull: 5 in (127 mm) Gun turret: 11 in (279 mm) Funnel base: 6 in (152 mm) Conning tower: 8 in (203 mm)

Uragan (Russian: Ураган) was an Uragan-class monitor built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the mid-1860s.

Notes

1. All dates used in this article are New Style.

Footnotes

References

• Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
• McLaughlin, Stephen (2012). "Russia's American Monitors: The Uragan Class". In John Jordan. Warship 2012. London: Conway. pp. 98–112. ISBN 978-1-84486-156-9.