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The Russian cruiser ''Minin'' ((ロシア語:Минин)) was an armored cruiser built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the 1860s and 1870s. She was renamed ''Ladoga'' in 1909 when converted to a minelayer. The ship was sunk in 1915 when she struck a mine laid by a German submarine in the Baltic Sea. ==Design and description== Originally designed as a sister ship to the broadside ironclad , the navy was dissatisfied with that ship as it believed that foreign developments had made her obsolete. So the ship was redesigned as a low-freeboard twin-turret ship with full rigging, much like the ill-fated British ship . Already launched when ''Captain'' capsized in a storm in 1870, ''Minin'' was reconstructed as an armored cruiser with her armament on the broadside and improved machinery.〔Watts, p. 68〕 The ship had an overall length of , a beam of and a draft of .〔Silverstone, p. 358〕 She displaced at deep load. Her hull was sheathed with copper to reduced biofouling and her crew numbered approximately 545 officers and men.〔Gardiner, p. 175〕 ''Minin'' had a vertical compound steam engine that drove a single propeller, using steam provided by a dozen cylindrical boilers.〔 The engine produced which gave her a maximum speed around .〔 The ship carried a maximum of of coal〔 which gave her an economical range of at a speed of . She was ship-rigged with three masts.〔 To reduce drag while under sail, the single funnel could be lowered.〔 The ship had four , a dozen and four rifled breech-loading guns. She had a complete waterline belt of wrought iron that ranged in thickness from amidships to 6 inches at the ends of the ships.〔 The belt had a total height of height of , of which was below the waterline. ''Minin'' had a steel deck thick at the top of the belt, but her armament was entirely unprotected.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Russian cruiser Minin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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