Charodeika class monitor

Charodeika at anchor; her two turrets are painted white
Class overview
Operators:	Russian Navy
Preceded by:	Smerch
Succeeded by:	Admiral Lazarev class
Built:	1866–69
Completed:	2
Lost:	1
Scrapped:	1
General characteristics
Type:	Monitor
Displacement:	1,881 long tons (1,911 t)
Length:	210 ft (64.0 m)
Beam:	42 ft (12.8 m)
Draft:	12 ft 5 in (3.8 m)
Installed power:	786 ihp (586 kW)
Propulsion:	2 shafts, 2 Horizonal direct-action steam engines 2 rectangular boilers
Speed:	8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement:	172 officers and crewmen
Armament:	2 × 2 - 9-inch (229 mm) Smoothbore guns
Armor:	Belt: 3.5–4.5 in (89–114 mm) Gun turrets: 4.5–6 in (114–152 mm) Conning tower: 4.5 in (114 mm)

The Charodeika class was a pair of monitors built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the late 1860s.

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References

• Robert Gardiner, ed (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4. 
• "Russian Monitors and Coast Defense Ships". Warship International (Toledo, OH: Naval Records Club) IX (3): 304–305. 1972. 
• Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-979-0. 
• Watts, Anthony J. (1990). The Imperial Russian Navy. London: Arms and Armour. ISBN 0-85368-912-1.