From the June 21, 2017,laststandonzombie island "Warship Wednesday: The Tsar's Everlasting Musketeer.
The article also has an in depth look at U.S.-Russian relations during the Civil War.
Strelets means Sagittarius of the Zodiac. but also was the name of an early corps on musketeers established in the 16th century and retained until Peter the Great decided to get rid of them.
She was laid down at the Galernyi Island Shipyard, Saint Petersburg on 1 December 1863, just weeks after her plans had been obtained from the United States and commissioned 15 June 1865 and built at a cost of 1.1 million rubles alongside her sister Edinorog. These two monitors were the last of ten completed.
Rapidly obsolete by the end of the 19th century, on February 1, 1892, the Strelets and her nine sisters were reclassified as coastal defense ships (which is essentially all they had done in the intervening years.
By 1900 all ten were withdrawn from service and disarmed.
While many were soon scrapped, the Strelets was reclassified as a floating workshop at Kronstadt on 22 February 1901 and was retained in service until 1955.
--Old B-Runner
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