Russian monitor Smerch

Smerch at anchor; her two turrets are painted white
Class overview
Operators	Imperial Russian Navy
Preceded by	Uragan class
Succeeded by	Charodeika class
Cost	554,100 rubles
Built	1863–65
Completed	1
Scrapped	1
History
Russian Empire
Name	Smerch (Russian: Смерч)
Namesake	Waterspout
Ordered	25 June 1863[Note 1]
Builder	Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg
Yard number	117
Laid down	1 December 1863
Launched	23 June 1864
Completed	1865
Renamed	Blokshiv No. 2, 27 October 1909 Blokshiv No. 3, 1923 Blokshiv No. 1, 1 January 1932 BSh-1, 16 May 1949
Reclassified	As coast-defense ironclad, 13 February 1892
Stricken	20 February 1904 6 March 1942 2 April 1959
Fate	Scrapped after 2 April 1959.
General characteristics (as completed)
Type	Monitor
Displacement	1,560 long tons (1,585 t)
Length	188 ft 8 in (57.5 m) (waterline)
Beam	38 ft 2 in (11.6 m)
Draft	12 ft (3.7 m)
Installed power	800 ihp (600 kW) 3 rectangular boilers
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 Horizontal direct-action steam engines
Speed	8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement	133 officers and crewmen (1867)
Armament	2 × twin 60-pounder 7.72-inch (196 mm) smoothbore guns
Armor	Belt: 4–4.5 in (102–114 mm) Gun turrets: 4.5–6 in (114–152 mm) Deck: 1 in (25 mm) Conning tower: 4.5 in (114 mm)

Smerch (Russian: Смерч) was a monitor built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the early 1860s. She was designed by the British shipbuilder Charles Mitchell and built in Saint Petersburg. The ship spent her entire career with the Baltic Fleet. She ran aground and sank shortly after she entered service in 1865. Smerch was refloated and repaired shortly afterwards. She became a training ship sometime after 1892 and was stricken from the Navy List in 1904. The ship was hulked five years later and renamed Blokshiv No. 2. She was in Finland when that country declared its independence in 1918, but was returned to the Soviets after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed. Blokshiv No. 1, as the ship was now known, was sunk by German artillery fire in 1941. She was salvaged the following year and remained in service until she was stricken in 1959 and subsequently broken up.
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