She is the second vessel in the top of the margin from the left.
Built by Carr & Macpherson at the Baltic Shipyard at St Petersburg, Russia for the Imperial Russian Navy.
1861 Laid down.
October 1861 Launched under the name OPYT.
Displacement 270 ton. Dim. 38.9 (bpp.) x 6.78 x 1.83m. (draught). (Conway’s All the Worlds Fighting Ships 1860 – 1905 gives a length of 36.67m.
Powered by a steamegine of 195 ihp., twin shafts, speed 9 knots.
Armament: Her foredeck mounted a raised parapet that was fitted with a gun port for one 196mm smoothbore bomb-throwing gun.
Crew 43.
1863 Completed.
The Crimean War revealed the vulnerability of unarmored wooden-hulled ships to bomb-throwing guns, and incendiary grenades.
The necessity arouses to build armor-protected vessels, especial for the most vital parts of the ship.
The Imperial Russian Admiralty proposed an armored gunboat.
She was divided in 5 watertight compartments.
Her foredeck got a spherical slope for bomb rebounding.
The parapet was protected by 115mm armor. The hull below the parapet was armored with 65mm armor placed on a 305mm teak lining.
The bomb room and ammunition storeroom were located behind the parapet and protected on the sides by drinking water tanks.
Men of a guards company manned the OPYT after she was commissioned. She joined the Russian Baltic Fleet.
Later her gun was replaced with 1 – 11inch gun and 2 – 3.4 inch guns, the 3.4 inch guns were later replaced by 2.5pdr. guns, and the 11-inch gun eventually removed.
She was later renamed in MINA.
A rapport of 1901 states that she had then the engines, which formerly were in the TB 75 and TB 81.
Her final days in use as a torpedo school tender.
1906 Stricken from the navy list.
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Source: Mostly copied from http://milparade.udm.ru/20/140.html and Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships 1860-1905.