Russian cruiser Afrika

She was 2775 tonnes, 83 m long, 11.06 m in the beam and had four boilers powering a single vertical triple expansion steam engine.

[1] Built by John Roach and Sons at the Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works shipyard in Chester, Pennsylvania, she was launched in May 1877 under the name Saratoga.

In 1882 geographers aboard her surveyed parts of the Kamchatka Peninsula, naming its easternmost point Cape Afrika after the ship.

[3] Also in 1898 admiral Alexei Popov made the first Russian naval wireless telegraphy transmission from Afrika to the transport ship Europe.

She was attached to the Baltic Fleet in December 1920 for use as a transport ship and floating artillery depot, before being sold for scrap to Germany in September 1923.