| Preserved Warships of
Foreign Navies
Buffel
Buffel was one of a class
of ironclad rams - her sister was the Guinea - that were built for the
Royal Netherlands Navy in the late 1860s. Buffel was designed and built
by Napier, and was withdrawn from active service in 1894. She is now preserved at
Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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Statistics: |
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Displacement:
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2284 tons
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Dimensions:
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195' 10" x 40' x 16'
3"
(59.7m x 12.2m x 4.95m)
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Machinery:
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2-shaft Napier compound engines
4 boilers
2000 ihp
11.2 knots
150 tons of coal
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Armour:
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6" Iron Belt
8" Iron Turret
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Armament when built:
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2 x 230mm MLR
4 x 30 pdr. ML
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Crew:
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159
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Sölve
Sölve was one of a class
of ironclad monitors - her sisters were the Hildur, Gerda, Ulf, Björn,
Bersek, and Folke - that were built for the
Royal Swedish Navy in the 1870s. Sölve and her sisters were designed by
d'Ailly and built
by Motala. Sölve was withdrawn from service in 1919 and converted into
an oil barge. She is now under restoration at Maritiman Maritime Centre,
Göteborg, Sweden.
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Statistics: |
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Displacement:
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460 tons
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Dimensions:
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130' 6" x 26'
4" x 8' 10"
(38.78m x 8.02m x 2.7m)
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Machinery:
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2-shaft 2-cylinder
horizontal engines
2 boilers
155 ihp
8 knots
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Armour:
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3" Iron Belt
0.75" Iron Deck
16.5" Iron Turret
10" Iron Conning Tower
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Armament when built:
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1 x 240mm BLR
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Crew:
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48
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Aurora
Aurora was one of a class
of three protected cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy between
1895 and 1903. Her sister ships were Pallada and Diana. Aurora was built
in the New Admiralty shipyard in St. Petersburg and survived the Russo-Japanese
War. She was an active unit of the Imperial Navy until the Russian
Revolution, when her forward gun is reputed to have signaled the start
of the attack on the Tsar's Winter Palace in St. Petersburg by the Red
Guards. After the Russian Revolution Aurora became part of the Soviet
fleet, but due to her obsolescence she was only used as a training ship.
During the Great Patriotic War (World War 2) she was bombed and sank in shallow
water at her moorings. Her guns were then dismounted and used to arm the
armoured train Baltiyets. She was raised after the war, and renovated
for use as a memorial and museum ship. She is now preserved on the River
Neva, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Statistics: |
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Displacement:
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5622 tons
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Dimensions:
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416' 8" x 55' x 21'
6"
(126.69m x 16.76m x 6.55m)
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Machinery:
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3-shaft vertical triple
expansion engines
24 boilers
12000 ihp
19 knots
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Armour:
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2.75" Steel Deck
3" Steel Casemates and Gun Shields
6" Steel Conning Tower
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Armament when built:
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8 x 6"
24 x 11pdr
8 x 1pdr
3 x 15" Torpedo Tubes
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Crew:
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581
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©
Robert George Cordery (2008)
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