Russian ship Sultan Makhmud

Painting of Sultan Makhmud under sail
History
Russian Empire
NameSultan Makhmud
BuilderV. Apostoli, Nikolaev
Laid down1 February 1835
Launched31 October 1836
FateBroken up, 1854
General characteristics
Class & typeSultan Makhmud-class ship of the line
Displacement3,790 metric tons (3,730 long tons; 4,180 short tons)
Length196 ft (60 m)
Beam53 ft 6 in (16.31 m)
Draft26 ft 7 in (8.10 m)
Armament
  • 28 × 36-pound long guns
  • 32 × 36-pound short guns
  • 6 × 18-pound guns
  • 16 × 36-pound carronades

Sultan Makhmud was the lead ship of the Sultan Makhmud class of ships of the line built for the Imperial Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet in the late 1830s and early 1840s. The ship supported a campaign by the Imperial Russian Army to pacify newly-conquered territory in the Caucasus in the late 1830s and 1840, and thereafter patrolled the Black Sea in the early 1840s. She spent most of the last half of the decade out of service apart from brief periods of activity in 1847 and 1849, and was decommissioned in 1850. Hulked in 1852, she quickly deteriorated badly and was broken up in 1854.