 Strelets after the late 1870s
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| History | |
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 Russian Empire | |
| Name | Strelets (Стрелец) |
| Namesake | Musketeer |
| Ordered | 23 March 1863[Note 1] |
| Builder | Galernyi Island Shipyard, Saint Petersburg |
| Cost | 1,141,800 rubles |
| Laid down | 1 December 1863 |
| Launched | 2 June 1864 |
| In service | 1865 |
| Out of service | 6 July 1900 |
| Renamed | Plavmasterskaia No. 1, 1901 |
| Reclassified | As coastal defense ship, 13 February 1892 |
| Stricken | 17 August 1900 |
| Fate | Converted into a floating workshop, 1901, extant at St. Petersburg, Russia as of 2015 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and 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 | |
| Propulsion | 1 shaft, 1 × 2-cylinder direct-acting steam engine |
| Speed | 6 knots (11 km/h; 6.9 mph) |
| Range | 1,440 nmi (2,670 km; 1,660 mi) at 6 knots (11 km/h; 6.9 mph) |
| Complement | 96–110 |
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Strelets (Russian: Стрелец) is an Uragan-class monitor built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the mid-1860s. The design was based on the American Passaic-class monitor, but was modified to suit Russian engines, guns and construction techniques. Spending her entire career with the Baltic Fleet, the ship was only active when the Gulf of Finland was not frozen, but very little is known about her service. She was struck from the Navy List in 1900, converted into a floating workshop the following year and renamed Plavmasterskaia No. 1. The ship served as such through 1955. The ship was identified as still afloat in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2015, and attempts are being made by the Foundation for Historic Boats and the Russian Central Military History Museum to restore her.
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