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For operational reasons, and taking into account the experience of building cruisers abroad, the Russian Ministry of the Navy decided to create a relatively low-speed bronepalubnyh cruisers. To do this, at the direction of the control of Admiral Marine Ministry NM Chikhacheva Naval Technical Committee (ITC) circular number 2 on March 2, 1894 announced a competition to design a steel ocean cruiser. The competition is open to all persons of the Navy Department. Its participants were in a two-month period to develop and submit to the ITC preliminary design and an explanatory note with the justification of all the major elements of the proposed ship. After consideration of the materials in the ITC preliminary designs the best of them admitted to a detailed design. As an incentive, participants were assigned to three awards: the first of 2,500 rubles., Second - 1800 rubles. and third - 1000 rubles.
In October 1894 ITC summed up the first round of the competition on nine projects presented under the motto: "Falcon", "The Hercules Svyatogor", "Alabama", "Prince Vladimir", "Wave", "Work", "Unsinkable" "Port Due" and "Unbreakable." At the meeting of MTC October 10, it was decided: four projects under the motto "The Wave", "falcon", "Prince Vladimir" and "unsinkable" because of the failure to comply with the job to dismiss, and the other five - "The Hercules Svyatogor", "Port Douay" "Alabama," "Unbreakable" and "Work" to allow the detailed design with the ITC made comments and suggestions for each project.
Table 1
Brief tactical and technical data projects cruisers, took the prize in the competition 1894-1895.
In June 1895 were announced the final results of the competition and the opening of the packages with the names of winners (names of participants to the contest until now kept in a sealed envelope, which was identified only motto). Following a vote, the winners were: junior assistant builder 18 IG Bubnov and LL Koromaldi (project under the motto "Port Due") - First Prize, Senior Assistant builder GF Schlesinger ("Unbreakable") - Second Prize , Senior Assistant builder PF Veshkurtsev ("Work") - the third prize.
But none of the projects could not without some changes "for immediate construction."
Displacement of 8400 tons
Speed 19.5 knots
Armament:
3 * 203/45 cannon Cane
9 * 152/45 cannon Cane
8 * 75/50 gun Cana
2 * 37 Hotchkiss
2 * 63.5 Baranowski (Airborne)
4 guns
Armor:
Belt - 152mm
Deck - 37-63 mm
Armored wheelhouse - 152mm