VLADIMIR 1848 steam frigate

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Built as a steam paddle frigate by Ditchburn & Mare, Blackwall on the River Thames for the Russian Imperial Navy.
1847 Laid down.
10 March 1848 launched as the VLADIMIR.
Displacement 1,731 tons. Dim. 200 (bpp.) x 35.11 x 14.8ft (draught aft.)
Armament: upperdeck 2 – 9.65 inch shell guns, 4 – 24 pdrs., 2 – 18 pdrs. and 1 – 8 pdr. guns, when built.
Powered by a steam engine, manufactured by Rennie at London, 400 nhp., speed 11 knots.
Range 2,000 mile.
Autumn 1848 commissioned.

She took part in the Crimean War 1853-1856.
05 November 1853 she captured the Turkish armed steamer PERVAZ-I BAHRI armed with 10 guns.. 1854 She made a successful war patrol on the Anatolian coast.
30 August 1855 the VLADIMIR was scuttled.
Her armament was removed by divers between 24 June and 10 July 1856.
08 June 1860 salvaged by an American company, where after she was towed to Nikolaev in the summer of 1861for repairs.
Surveys found out that she was too damaged and too costly to repair.
Attached to the armoured squadron as a floating workshop in 1867.
13 January 1891 disarmed. Expended as a target for torpedoes.


Russia 1971 16k sg4020, scott 3934.
Russia 1989 5k sg6091, scott5850a.

Source: Russian Warships in the Age of Sail 1696 – 1860 by John Tredrea & Eduard Sozan
Historical Sketches of Watercraft on Stamps.