Russian monitor Perun

Sister ship Koldun, in the late 1870s or early 1880s
History
Russian Empire
Name	Perun (Перун)
Namesake	Perun[1]
Ordered	23 March 1863[Note 1]
Builder	Semiannikov & Poletika Shipyard, Saint Petersburg
Cost	1,142,700 rubles
Laid down	15 December 1863
Launched	30 June 1864
In service	1 September 1865
Out of service	6 July 1900
Renamed	Lotsiia, 1915
Reclassified	As coastal defense ship, 13 February 1892
Stricken	17 August 1900
Fate	Converted into a pilot boat and scrapped around 1924
General characteristics
Class and type	Uragan-class monitor
Displacement	1,500–1,600 long tons (1,524–1,626 t)
Length	201 ft (61.3 m)
Beam	46 ft (14.0 m)
Draft	10.16–10.84 ft (3.1–3.3 m)
Installed power	340–500 ihp (254–373 kW) 2 rectangular Morton boilers
Propulsion	1 shaft, 1 × 2-cylinder horizontal direct-acting steam engine
Speed	6.75 knots (12.50 km/h; 7.77 mph)
Range	1,440 nmi (2,670 km; 1,660 mi) at 6 knots (11 km/h; 6.9 mph)
Complement	96–110
Armament	1865: 2 × 9 in (229 mm) smoothbore guns 1868: 2 × 15 in (381 mm) smoothbore Rodman guns 1873: 2 × 9 in (229 mm) rifled guns
Armor	Hull: 5 in (127 mm) Gun turret: 11 in (279 mm) Funnel base: 6 in (152 mm) Conning tower: 8 in (203 mm)

Perun (Russian: Перун) was an Uragan-class monitor built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the mid-1860s. The design was based on the American Passaic-class monitor, but was modified to suit Russian engines, guns and construction techniques. Spending her entire career with the Baltic Fleet, the ship was only active when the Gulf of Finland was not frozen, but very little is known about her service. Perun was struck from the Navy List in 1900 and became a pilot ship. Renamed Lotsiia (Pilot) in 1915, the ship was damaged during the Kronstadt rebellion of 1921 and laid up afterwards. She was run aground by a flood three years later and then her wreck was scrapped.

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