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Diana

Diana

Interned

Imperial Russian Navy

TypeProtected cruiser
ClassPallada
WarRusso-Japanese War
Main guns8 × 152-mm/45 guns

Interned at Saigon after the Battle of the Yellow Sea.

This Photo is the first of two from the archive of "panoramafoto" (60011323-60011324). Navyships in the harbor of Sabang on the island Weh. The ships are Russian, visiting Sabang in 1903 on a way from Baltic Sea to Port Arthur: in the foreground "Диана" (Diana) a Pallada-class cruiser, while the oth Photo: Christiaan Benjamin Nieuwenhuis, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 8 × 152-mm/45 guns
  • 24 × 75-mm/50 guns
  • 6 × 37-mm/23 guns
  • 2 × 63.5-mm/19 guns
  • 3 × torpedoes
  • 35 naval mines

Armour

  • Deck: 38 mm (1.5 in)
  • Bevel: 50.8–63.5 mm (2.00–2.50 in)
  • Conning tower: 152 mm (6.0 in)
BuilderAdmiralty Shipyard, St. Petersburg, Russia
Laid down23 May 1897
Launched30 September 1899
Commissioned10 December 1901
Displacement6657 tons
Length126.8 m (416 ft)
Speed20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement19/540

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

30 September 1899

8–9 February 1904

10 August 1904

Interned at Saigon

Fate

Interned

Scrapped at Bremen in 1922