Russian cruiser Varyag (1899)

Varyag c. 1904
History
Russian Empire
Name	Varyag
Builder	William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Yard number	301
Laid down	October 1898
Launched	31 October 1899
Commissioned	2 January 1901 O.S.: (14 January 1901 N.S.)
Fate	Scuttled, 9 February 1904
Empire of Japan
Name	Soya
Acquired	by Japan as prize of war
Commissioned	9 July 1907
Fate	Returned to Russia, 5 April 1916
Russian Empire
Name	Varyag
Acquired	5 April 1916
Out of service	seized by Great Britain February 1918
Fate	Ran aground 1920, scrapped 1925 Firth of Clyde
General characteristics
Type	Protected cruiser
Displacement	6,500 long tons (6,604 t)
Length	129.6 m (425 ft 2 in) w/l
Beam	15.8 m (51 ft 10 in)
Draught	6.3 m (20 ft 8 in)
Installed power	30 Niclausse boilers 20,000 ihp (15,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph)
Complement	570
Armament	12 × 1 - 152 mm (6 in) guns 12 × 1 - 75 mm (3.0 in) guns 8 × 1 - 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 2 × 1 - 37 mm (1.5 in) guns 6 × 1 - 381 mm (15.0 in) above-water torpedo tubes (1 bow, 1 stern, 2 per side)

Varyag (Russian: Варя́г) sometimes also spelled Variag, was a Russian protected cruiser. Varyag became famous for her crew's stoicism at the Battle of Chemulpo Bay. She was acquired as a prize of war during the Russo-Japanese War by the Imperial Japanese Navy, who renamed her Soya and was later returned to the Russian Imperial Navy during World War I.