Russian ironclad Pervenets

Pervenets as depicted by an 1893 lithograph
History
Russian Empire
Name	Pervenets (Russian: Первенец)
Operator	Imperial Russian Navy
Ordered	18 November 1861
Builder	Thames Iron Works, Blackwall, London
Cost	917,000 rubles
Laid down	December 1861
Launched	18 May 1863[Note 1]
Commissioned	28 July 1864
Reclassified	Coast defense ship, 13 February 1892
Stricken	15 September 1905
Fate	Sold for use as a barge, 8 August 1908
Soviet Union
Name	Barzha No. 1 (Barge No. 1)
Acquired	30 June 1922
Renamed	KP-3, 1 January 1932 K-41999, 12 July 1943 VSN-491000, 16 May 1949
Stricken	Late 1950s
Fate	Scrapped, 1960s
General characteristics (as completed)
Class and type	Pervenets-class broadside ironclad
Displacement	3,277 long tons (3,330 t)
Length	220 ft (67.1 m)
Beam	53 ft (16.2 m)
Draft	14 ft 6 in (4.4 m)
Installed power	1,000 ihp (750 kW) 4 × rectangular fire-tube boilers
Propulsion	1 shaft,1 × 3-cylinder horizontal return-connecting-rod steam engine
Sail plan	Schooner
Speed	8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement	459 officers and crewmen
Armament	26 × 7.72-inch (196 mm) 60-pounder smoothbore guns
Armor	Belt: 4–4.5 in (102–114 mm)

The Russian ironclad Pervenets (Russian: Первенец) was a broadside ironclad built for the Imperial Russian Navy in Britain during the 1860s. The ship had to be built abroad as no Russian shipyard had mastered the techniques required to build iron-hulled armored vessels. She was assigned to the Baltic Fleet upon completion and never left Russian waters. Pervenets served with the Gunnery Training Detachment for her entire career until she was reduced to reserve in 1904. She was disarmed and stricken the following year and finally sold in 1908. After the end of the Russian Civil War, the ship was reacquired by the Soviets in 1922 and used to transport and store coal, a role she performed until discarded in the late 1950s. However, she was apparently not scrapped until the early 1960s.
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