Sail-screw frigates. Part III. 1858-1880
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Sail-screw frigates. Part III. 1858-1880
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The final part of the trilogy is devoted to the best wooden frigates of the Russian Imperial Navy - Oslyab, two ships of the Alexander Nevsky type and the firstborns of armored shipbuilding - the frigates Sevastopol and Petropavlovsk.
At the time when the first three were being built, General-Admiral Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich was already thinking about the battleships: “The shackled frigates will make a complete revolution in naval art, so it is extremely unwise not to undertake the construction of even one such frigate for our fleet even longer.” Their size and general location were determined with the filing of the commander of the Mediterranean squadron I.A. Shestakov: “The type of “Don” should serve not only as a model for most of our frigates, but also as a limit to their size.” So were built "Sevastopol" and "Petropavlovsk".
The ships in question quickly left the scene, which entered service in 1861-1867, they were actually decommissioned in the mid-70s, giving way to their completely iron descendants. Among these five was not lucky only "Alexander Nevsky" - he ran aground and was crushed by a storm off the coast of Denmark in 1868, and the long-lived was "Petropavlovsk", which passed its name to the battleship of a new generation in 1892.
At the time when the first three were being built, General-Admiral Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich was already thinking about the battleships: “The shackled frigates will make a complete revolution in naval art, so it is extremely unwise not to undertake the construction of even one such frigate for our fleet even longer.” Their size and general location were determined with the filing of the commander of the Mediterranean squadron I.A. Shestakov: “The type of “Don” should serve not only as a model for most of our frigates, but also as a limit to their size.” So were built "Sevastopol" and "Petropavlovsk".
The ships in question quickly left the scene, which entered service in 1861-1867, they were actually decommissioned in the mid-70s, giving way to their completely iron descendants. Among these five was not lucky only "Alexander Nevsky" - he ran aground and was crushed by a storm off the coast of Denmark in 1868, and the long-lived was "Petropavlovsk", which passed its name to the battleship of a new generation in 1892.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books in the series Russian Imperial Navy