Laid down 1861 Type Gunboat Beam 6.8 m (22 ft) Launched 27 September 1861 | Fate stricken 1906 Displacement 270 t (270 long tons) Construction started 1861 Length 38 m | |
Builder Carr and MacPherson, St. Petersburg | ||
The gunboat Opyt (Russian: Опыт: experience) was the first ironclad warship commissioned by the Imperial Russian Navy. It was built by Carr and MacPherson at the Baltic shipyard in Saint Petersburg. English and Russian wrought iron plates 1200 x 1000 mm in size protected the front part of the gunboat.
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Russian gunboat Opyt (1861) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA