Russian monitor Charodeika

Charodeika at anchor
History
Russian Empire
Name	Charodeika
Namesake	Sorceress
Ordered	26 January 1865[Note 1]
Builder	Admiralty Shipyard, St. Petersburg
Laid down	6 June 1866
Launched	12 September 1867
In service	1869
Reclassified	As a coast-defense ironclad, 13 February 1892
Stricken	7 April 1907
Fate	Scrapped 1911–12
General characteristics (as completed)
Class and type	Charodeika-class monitor
Displacement	2,100 long tons (2,134 t)
Length	206 ft (62.8 m) (waterline)
Beam	42 ft (12.8 m)
Draft	12 ft 7 in (3.8 m)
Installed power	875 ihp (652 kW) 2 rectangular boilers
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 Horizontal direct-action steam engines
Speed	8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement	172 officers and crewmen
Armament	2 × 9-inch (229 mm) Smoothbore guns 2 × 15-inch (381 mm) Rodman guns
Armor	Belt: 3.25–4.5 in (83–114 mm) Gun turrets: 5.5 in (140 mm) Conning tower: 4.5 in (114 mm) Deck: 1 in (25 mm)

The Russian monitor Charodeika was the lead ship of her class of monitors built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1860s. She served for her entire career with the Baltic Fleet, mostly as a training ship. She was decommissioned in 1907, but was not broken up until 1911–12.
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