Russian cruiser Gerzog Edinburgski
 The Russian armoured cruiser Gerzog Edinburgski
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| History | |
|---|---|
 Russian Empire | |
| Name | Gerzog Edinburgski |
| Namesake | Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh |
| Builder | Baltic Works |
| Laid down | 1870 |
| Launched | 1875 |
| Commissioned | 1877 |
| Out of service | 1915 |
| Renamed | Onega |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1949 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | armoured cruiser |
| Displacement | 4,600 t (4,500 long tons) |
| Length | 87 m (285 ft) |
| Beam | 14.6 m (48 ft) |
| Draught | 6.45 m (21.2 ft) |
| Speed | 12.3 knots (22.8 km/h; 14.2 mph) |
| Range | 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Armament |
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| Armour | Belt: 6 in (150 mm) |
Gerzog Edinburgski (
armoured cruiser of the General-Admiral class built for the Imperial Russian Navy. She was the sister ship of General-Admiral and was named after Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Edinburgh (Gerzog Edinburgski in Russian) who married Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia
.
High Commissioner of an autonomous Cretan State under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire, bringing the Cretan uprising to an end.[1][2][3]
The International Squadron then dissolved.
Gerzog Edinburgski was used as a training vessel beginning in the early 1900s. She visited
Bolshevik Revolution
. She was broken up in 1949.
References
Citations
Bibliography
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- Clowes, Sir William Laird. The Royal Navy: A History From the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen Victoria, Volume Seven. London: Chatham Publishing, 1997. ISBN 1-86176-016-7.
- McTiernan, Mick, A Very Bad Place Indeed For a Soldier. The British involvement in the early stages of the European Intervention in Crete. 1897 - 1898, King's College, London, September 2014.