Russian cruiser Bayan (1907)
Bayan (Russian: Баянъ) was the third of the four armoured cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the early 1900s. The ship was assigned to the Baltic Fleet. She was modified to lay mines shortly after World War I began. Bayan laid mines herself and provided cover for other ships laying minefields. The ship fought several inconclusive battles with German ships during the war, including the Battle of Åland Islands in mid-1915. She also participated in the Battle of Moon Sound during the German invasion of the Estonian islands in late 1917, where she was damaged. Bayan was decommissioned in 1918 and sold for scrap in 1922. Design and description Bayan was long overall. She had a maximum beam of , a draught of and displaced . The ship had a crew of 568 officers and men. Bayan was named in honor of the earlier Russian cruiser of the same class captured by the Japanese during the Russo-Japanese War. Both ships were named for the legendary bard, Boyan. The ship had two vertical triple-expansion steam engines with a designed total of , but they developed on sea trials and drove the ship to a maximum speed of . Steam