Name Admiral Kornilov Commissioned 1888 Type Protected cruiser Launched 1887 Beam 14 m | Laid down 1886 Struck 1911 Construction started 1886 Length 113 m Builder Saint-Nazaire | |
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Reclassified Torpedo training ship, 1908 | ||
Admiral Kornilov was a protected cruiser of the Russian Imperial Navy. She was presumably named for Admiral Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov.
The ship was laid down in 1886 and launched in 1887 at St. Nazaire in France. She was commissioned in 1888. Admiral Kornilov was 113 metres (371 ft) long and 14.8 metres (49 ft) wide, had a draught of 7.8 metres (26 ft) and featured a large ram bow. She displaced 5,863 tonnes (5,770 long tons). The armament consisted of fourteen 6-inch (152 mm) guns, six 3-pounders (47 mm) and ten 1-pounders (37 mm) plus six 15-inch (380 mm) torpedo tubes. During a refit in 1904/05 the main armament was changed to ten 6-inch (150 mm) guns. The deck armor was between 1 to 2.5 inches (25 to 64 mm), the armor at the command tower was 3 inches (76 mm). Two horizontal triple-expansion steam engines with eight boilers gave her 5,977 ihp and a top speed of 17.6 knots (32.6 km/h). She had two shafts and a bunker capacity of 1,000 tons of coal. The crew numbered 479 men.
Admiral Kornilov was unique to the Russian Navy but resembled the large protected cruisers Tage and Amiral Cecelle built at the same time for the French Navy. These were unusually long cruisers at the time, although surpassed in 1892 by the British Blake class.
The ship was used as a torpedo training ship from 1908 and was stricken from the active list in 1911.