1870 Russian Navy

Ironclad Petropavlovsk (1865)

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Imperial Russian Navy – Broadside Ironclad built 1861-67, in service until 1885. The Russian ironclad Petropavlovsk was ordered as a 58-gun wooden frigate by the Imperial Russian Navy in 1860 but converted under construction into a 22-gun armored frigate. Her story is very much the same as her sister Sevastopol. She was completed second, a … Read more

Sevastopol class ironclads (1864)

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Imperial Russian Navy – Broadside Ironclad built 1860-65, in service until 1886. The Russian ironclad Sevastopol was ordered as a 58-gun wooden frigate by the Imperial Russian Navy in 1860 but converted while under construction into a 32-gun armored frigate. As the first armoured ship of the Russian Navy, she served in the Baltic Fleet, … Read more