Russian frigate General Admiral

General Admiral
Class overview
Name	General Admiral (Russian: Генерал-адмирал)
Operators	Imperial Russian Navy
Built	1857–1859
In commission	1859–1870
Completed	1
Scrapped	1
History
Russian Empire
Name	General Admiral
Namesake	Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia
Operator	Imperial Russian Navy
Builder	William H. Webb Shipyard, New York City
Laid down	21 September 1857[Note 1]
Launched	3 September 1858
Commissioned	15 March 1859
Stricken	26 June 1869
Fate	Broken up 1870
General characteristics (as built)
Type	Steam frigate
Displacement	5,669 long tons (5,760 t)
Length	305 ft (93.0 m) (p/p)
Beam	54 ft 8 in (16.7 m)
Draft	23 ft 6 in (7.2 m)
Installed power	2,000 ihp (1,500 kW) 6 fire-tube boilers
Propulsion	1 shaft, 2 steam engines
Speed	12.25 knots (22.69 km/h; 14.10 mph)
Range	5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi)
Complement	790–825 officers and crewmen
Armament	Lower deck: 36 × 60-pounder shell guns 4 × long 36-pounder guns Upper deck: 2 × 10.75 in (273 mm) 3-pood pivot guns 24 × 60-pounder shell guns 2 × long 36-pounder guns

General Admiral (Russian: Генерал-адмирал) was a screw frigate ordered by the Imperial Russian Navy from the United States before the American Civil War. She spent the bulk of her career in the Mediterranean Sea where she evacuated insurgents and their families from Crete in 1868 during the Cretan Revolt. She was struck from the Navy List the following year and broken up in 1870.
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