''Admiral Kornilov'' was a

protected cruiser Protected cruisers, a type of naval cruiser of the late-19th century, gained their description because an armoured deck offered protection for vital machine-spaces from fragments caused by shells exploding above them. Protected cruisers re ...

of the

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. She was presumably named for Admiral

Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov Vice Admiral Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov (; 13 February 1806 – 17 October 1854) was a Russian naval officer who took part in the Crimean War and is known for his battle against the Pervaz-ı Bahrî in what is considered the first battle ...

. The ship was laid down in 1886 and launched in 1887 at St. Nazaire in France. She was commissioned in 1888. ''Admiral Kornilov'' was long and wide, had a draught of and featured a large

ram bow A ram was a weapon fitted to varied types of ships, dating back to antiquity. The weapon comprised an underwater prolongation of the bow of the ship to form an armoured beak, usually between 2 and 4 meters (6–12 ft) in length. This would be dri ...

. She displaced . The armament consisted of ten /40?(35) guns, six 3-pounders (47 mm) and ten 1-pounders (37 mm) plus six

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tubes. During a refit in 1904/05 the main armament was changed to ten guns. The deck armor was between , the armor at the command tower was . Two horizontal triple-expansion

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s with eight

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s gave her 5,977 ihp and a top speed of . She had two shafts and a bunker capacity of 1,000 tons of coal. The crew numbered 479 men. ''Admiral Kornilov'' was unique to the Russian Navy but resembled the large protected cruisers ''Tage'' and '' Amiral Cécille'' built at the same time for the French Navy. These were unusually long cruisers at the time, although surpassed in 1892 by the British . The ship was used as a torpedo training ship from 1908 and was stricken from the active list in 1911.

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* http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmore/russia/cruisers/admiralkornilov/admiralkornilov.html * http://www.neva.ru./EXPO96/arm/adk.html Naval ships of Russia 1887 ships Cruisers of the Imperial Russian Navy {{Russia-mil-ship-stub