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''Vladimir Monomakh'' ((ロシア語:Владимир Мономах)) was an armoured cruiser built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the 1880s. The vessel was named after Vladimir II Monomakh, Grand Prince of Kiev. She spent most of her career in the Far East, although the ship was in the Baltic Sea when the Russo-Japanese War began in 1904. ''Vladimir Monomakh'' was assigned to the Third Pacific Squadron and participated in the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905. She was tasked to protect the Russian transports and was not heavily engaged during the daylight portion of the battle. The ship was torpedoed during the night and was scuttled the following morning by her captain to prevent her capture by the Japanese. ==Design and description== ''Vladimir Monomakh'' was classified as a semi-armored frigate and was an improved version of the preceding . The ship was designed with high endurance and high speed to facilitate her role as a commerce raider able to outrun enemy battleships.〔Alliluev, p. 6〕 She was laid out as a central battery ironclad with the armament concentrated amidships. The iron-hulled ship was fitted with a ram and was sheathed in wood and copper to reduce fouling.〔Wright, pp. 123–25〕 The ship's hull was subdivided by ten transverse bulkheads and she had a double bottom deep.〔Alliluev, p. 11〕 Her crew numbered approximately 550 officers and men. ''Vladimir Monomakh'' was long overall. She had a beam of and a draft of .〔Silverstone, p. 359〕 The ship displaced at deep load.〔Watts, p. 79〕 The ship had two vertical compound steam engines, each driving a four-bladed, manganese-bronze propeller. Steam was provided by six cylindrical boilers at a pressure of . The engines produced during sea trials which gave the ship a maximum speed around . ''Vladimir Monomakh'' carried 〔Wright, pp. 124–25〕 of coal which gave her an economical range of at a speed of . She was ship rigged with three masts〔 and had a total sail area of . To reduce drag while under sail, her funnels were retractable.〔 ''Vladimir Monomakh'' was armed with four guns, one at each corner of the battery that were sponsoned out over the sides of the hull. Eight of the dozen guns were mounted between the eight-inch guns in the central battery and the remaining four were outside the battery at the ends of the ship.〔Wright, pp. 124, 126〕 Anti-torpedo boat defence was provided by four 9-pounder and ten Hotchkiss guns.〔Alliluev, p. 40〕 The ship was also equipped with three above-water torpedo tubes.〔 The ship's waterline belt was composed of compound armour and extended the full length of the ship. It was six inches thick amidships, but reduced to at the ship's ends. It extended above the waterline and below.〔Wright, p. 124〕 Transverse bulkheads thick protected the guns in the battery from raking fire.〔Chesneau and Kolesnik, p. 186〕 The sponsons of the 8-inch guns were equally thick. The protective deck was thick.〔 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 Vladimir Monomakh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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