Russian torpedo boat Ismail

Ismail in port
History
Russian Empire
NameIzmail / 267
BuilderNikolayev shipyard
Launched1886
FateStricken 1908
General characteristics
Class & typeIzmail class
Displacement76 long tons (77 t)
Length127 ft 7 in (38.89 m)
Beam11 ft 7 in (3.53 m)
Draught7 ft 6 in (2.29 m)
Installed power296 ihp (221 kW)
Propulsion1 shaft, Vertical compound, 1 locomotive boiler
Speed17.5 knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph)
Complement21
Armament
  • 2 × 1 pdr revolvers
  • 2 × 15 in (381 mm) torpedo tubes

The Russian torpedo boat Ismail was the first ship in the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet to join the mutiny of the battleship Potemkin in 1905. The torpedo boat was Potemkin's escort and had on board a complement of three officers, 20 sailors, two 37 mm guns and two torpedo launchers. Ismail brought rotten meat aboard Potemkin in June 1905, an incident which sparked the mutiny. The commander of Ismail was Lieutenant Pyotr Klodt von Yurgensburg, a 41-year-old Russian nobleman.