Soviet cruiser Komintern
Service
- as Pamiat' Merkuria1905 — in service2,193 days of the war
- as Pamiat' Merkuria (1917)12 November 1917 — in service2,193 days of the war
- as KominternJune 1923 — 17 July 19421,050 days of the war
- Name
- Komintern
- Namesake
- Brig Mercury
- Builder
- Admiralty Wharf, Nikolayev, Russian Empire
- Laid down
- 23 August 1901
- Launched
- 20 May 1902
- Commissioned
- 1905
- Decommissioned
- 17 July 1942
- Fate
- Sunk as breakwater, late 1942 (1942)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications — As built
- Displacement, standard
- 6,645 long tons (6,752 t)
- Length
- 134 m (439.6 ft)
- Beam
- 16.6 m (54.5 ft)
- Draught
- 6.3 m (20.7 ft)
- Speed
- 23 knots (42.6 km/h, 26.5 mph)
- Complement
- 589
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
Komintern was a Bogatyr-class cruiser protected cruiser. She was named for Brig Mercury. Admiralty Wharf, Nikolayev, Russian Empire laid her keel on 23 August 1901. She entered service in 1905, having been launched on 20 May 1902.
She was the only ship of her class. The class followed the Russian cruiser Askold (1900) and was succeeded by the Russian cruiser Novik (1900).
She displaced 6,645 long tons. She measured 134 m (440 ft) long with a beam of 16.6 m (54 ft). Her designed speed was 23 knots, and she carried a complement of 589.
Her main battery was eight 152 mm (6 in) guns. 23,000 shp drove two shafts.
She then passed to the Soviet Navy, serving as Komintern from June 1923. She was in commission for 5,436 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 17 July 1942.
She was sunk in 1942. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As built
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
- Power
- 16 Normand boilers
- 23000 shp
- Armament
- 2 × twin, 8 × single 6 in guns
- 12 × single 75 mm guns
- 8 × single 47 mm guns
- 2 × single 37 mm guns
- 2 × 15 in torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Deck: 80 mm
- Turrets: 127 mm
- Casemates: 80 mm
- Conning tower: 140 mm
After 1920s repair
- Displacement, standard
- 6,340 long tons (6,442 t)
- Length
- 134.9 m (442.6 ft)
- Beam
- 16.4 m (53.8 ft)
- Draught
- 6.8 m (22.3 ft)
- Range
- 2,100 nmi (3,889 km)
- Complement
- 730
- Main gun
- 130 mm (5.1 in)
- Power
- 16 Belleville boilers
- 19500 shp
- Armament
- Initial
- 12 × 1, 2 × 2 – 130 mm guns
- 2 × 3 – 457 mm torpedo tubes
- 1930 refit
- 10 × 1 – 130 mm guns
- 4 × 1 – 75 mm guns
- Autumn 1941
- 6 × 1 – 130 mm guns
- 4 × 1 – 76.2 mm AA guns
- 3 × 1 - 25 mm AA guns
- 195 × naval mines
- Armour
- Deck: 76 mm
- Casemates: 76 mm
- Conning tower: 152 mm
Sources
- Facts harvested from Soviet cruiser Komintern on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — flot.sevastopol.info — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons