Russian Monitor Strelets May Become a Museum Ship

From the October 18, 2018, Mechtraveller by Alastair.

And, remember, the Strelets was a Uragan-class Russian monitor built to the specs of a American Passaic-class monitor from the Civil War.  So, in effect, it would be a Union Civil War monitor.

The TASS news agency today is reporting comments made by  Russia's Deputy Defense  Minister Colonel-General  Andrei Kartapolov about the 19th century armored gunboat, the Strelets.

The Strelets was a 200 ft Uragan class, armored monitor.  She joined the Baltic Fleet in 1865 and was taken out of service in  1900 to be used until 1955 by the Russian Navy as a floating workshop at the Kronstadt Navy base outside St. Petersburg, where she was rediscovered in 2015.

Speaking at a press conference in St. Petersburg earlier today, Colonel-General Kartopolov said, "I discussed  this theme with the Navy's commander-in-chief earlier today.  In Kronstadt there is a unique  ship called the Strelets.  It is older than the Aurora.  We plan to turn it into a museum."

He said that the restoration work on the ship will begin soon with a view to having it  ready for public display by the 75th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War. - 9 May 2020.

Looking Forward to It.  --Old B-Runner