Russian monitor Tifon

Tifon or Koldun after the mid-1870s
History
Russian Empire
Name	Tifon (Тифон)
Namesake	Typhoon
Ordered	23 March 1863[Note 1]
Builder	New Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg
Cost	1,105,800 rubles
Laid down	1 December 1863
Launched	27 June 1864
In service	1865
Out of service	6 July 1900
Reclassified	As coastal defense ship, 13 February 1892
Stricken	17 August 1900
Fate	Converted into a mine storage hulk, 1909, and scrapped after 1922
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	6.7 knots (12.4 km/h; 7.7 mph)
Range	1,440 nmi (2,670 km; 1,660 mi) at 6 knots (11 km/h; 6.9 mph)
Complement	96–110
Armament	2 × 9 in (229 mm) smoothbore 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)

Tifon (Russian: Тифон) 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. She was struck from the Navy List in 1900, converted into a storage hulk for mines in 1909 and renamed Blokshiv No. 3. The ship was abandoned by the Soviets in Finland in 1918; although retroceded to the Soviets in 1922, she was later scrapped by the Finns.
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