Russian ship Arkhangel Gavriil
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| History | |
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 Russian Empire | |
| Name | Arkhangel Gavriil |
| Builder | A. S. Akimov, Nikolaev |
| Laid down | 28 August 1838 |
| Launched | 19 November 1839 |
| Fate | Scuttled, 11 September 1854 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Sultan Makhmud-class ship of the line |
| Displacement | 3,790 metric tons (3,730 long tons; 4,180 short tons) |
| Length | 196 ft (60 m) |
| Beam | 53 ft 6 in (16.31 m) |
| Draft | 26 ft 7 in (8.10 m) |
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Arkhangel Gavriil was a Sultan Makhmud-class ship of the line built for the Imperial Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet in the late 1830s and early 1840s. The ship had a relatively uneventful career, frequently being used as a troop transport including during campaigns in the Caucasus in the early 1840s to suppress unrest in the recently conquered territory. She saw little activity after being laid up in 1845 and was repaired in late 1853, though she did not see action during the Crimean War and was instead scuttled in September 1854.
The eight Sultan Makhmud-class ships of the line were ordered as part of a naval expansion program aimed at strengthening the Russian Black Sea Fleet during a period of increased tension with Britain and France over the decline of one of Russia's traditional enemies, the Ottoman Empire. Beginning in the 1830s, Russia ordered a series of 84-gun ships in anticipation of a future conflict, and the Sultan Makhmuds accounted for nearly half of the nineteen vessels built.[1]
Arkhangel Gavriil was 197 feet 4 inches (60.15 m) long, with a beam of 52 ft (16 m) and a draft of 23 ft 8 in (7.21 m) to 26 ft 7 in (8.10 m). She displaced 3,790 metric tons (3,730 long tons; 4,180 short tons) and measured 2,500 tons burthen. The ship was built with a round stern to increase its strength.[2]
The ship carried a battery of twenty-eight 36-pounder long guns on the lower gun deck and another thirty-two 36-pounder short-barreled guns on the upper gun deck. In her forecastle and quarterdeck, she mounted six 18-pounder guns and fourteen 36-pounder carronades, one 24-pounder carronade, two 12-pounder carronades, and two 8-pounder carronades. In 1853, all of the lighter carronades were removed from the ship, leaving just the 36-pounder carronades, and the next year the 18-pounder guns were replaced with an identical number of 18-pounder gunnades and another six 18-pounder short-barreled guns were added.[2]
