Name Pamiat' Merkuria Laid down 1879 Struck 7 April 1907 Construction started 1879 Length 90 m | Builder Le Havre Commissioned March 1882 Type Cruiser Launched 10 May 1880 | |
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Pamiat' Merkuria (Russian: Память Меркурия) was an unarmored cruiser of the Imperial Russian Navy. She was initially named Yaroslavl (Russian: Ярославль), but was renamed on 9 April 1883. She was a barque-rigged steel and iron ship with a ram bow. She had two unprotected 152 mm (6 in) guns as bow and stern chasers and the other four in unprotected sponsons on the upper deck. Her torpedo tubes were on swivels above water. She was reputedly a good sea boat.
She spent her career assigned to the Black Sea Fleet.
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Russian cruiser Pamiat Merkuria (1878) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA