List of ships of the line of Russia

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This is a list of Russian sail battleships of the period 1697-1863:
The format is: Name, number of guns, launch year, fate

Russian-built battleships

  • Skorpion 52
  • Kryepost 52
  • Zvyezda 52
  • Flag 52
  • Kolokol 46
  • Lev 44
  • Edinorog 44
  • Vinogradaya Vyetv 58
  • Myatch 54
  • Gerkules 52
  • Svyatoi Georgii 66
  • Bozhie Predvyedenie 58 - Captured by Turkey 1710
  • Tcherepacha 58 - BU 1727
  • Vyesy - Rearmed to 6-gun cargo ship
  • Slon/Olifant 44
  • Lastka 50 - Captured by Turkey 1710
  • Vyborg 50 (1710) - Burnt 1713/14?
  • Riga 50 (1710)
  • Spaga 60 (c. 1710) - Scuttled 1710
  • ? 50 - Sank 1711?
  • Pernov 50
  • Gavriil 52
  • Rafail 52
  • Sv. Mikhail 54
  • Sv. Ekaterina 62 (1712) - Renamed Vyborg 1721
  • Poltava 54 (1712)
  • Narva 64 (1714) - Lightning 1715
  • Shlisselburg 64 (1714)
  • Ingermandland 64 (c. 1715)
  • Vinkelgak 62
  • Delfin 62
  • Starii Dub 70 - BU 1727
  • Sulitsa 60 - BU 1727
  • Starii Orel 82 - BU 1727
  • Spyashtchii Lev 70 - BU 1727
  • Skorpion 60 - BU 1727
  • Tsvyet Voiny 60 - BU 1727
  • ? 48 - BU 1727
  • ? 48 - BU 1727

Purchased foreign-built battleships
These were purchased around 1712-14. Name in brackets indicates place or country of purchase. It is difficult to trace some origins.

  • Sv. Antonii 50 (Hamburg) - Wrecked 1716
  • Randolph 50 (England, ex-British)
  • Esperans 44/50 (Dunkerque, ex-French, ex-Dutch Hardenbroek)
  • Viktoria 50 (c. 1706, England, ex-French Grand Vainqueur, (ex-French Gaillard)? ex-Dutch Overwinnaer, captured 1708)
  • Strafford 50 (c. 1700, England, ex-Wintworth)
  • Vindford 46
  • Syurireis (=Surrey?) - Sold to Spain 1714 (as Real Macy 60)?
  • Oxford 50 (c. 1699, England, ex-Tankerfield)
  • Sv. Nikolaii 42 (Netherlands) (frigate/battleship)
  • Lansdowne 32 (England, ex-British Norris 40, ex-French) (frigate/battleship)
  • Bolingbroke 52 (c. 1702, England, ex-British Sussex) - Captured by Sweden 1714 and returned to Britain
  • ? 56 (c. 1710, ex-French Beau Parterre, ex-Dutch Schonauwen, captured 1711) - Captured by Sweden and renamed Kronskepp
  • Perl 52/54 (c. 1706/13, ex-Dutch Groote Perel)
  • Leferm 70/72 (ex-British, ex-French Ferme, captured 1702)
  • Armant/Ormonde 50 (ex-British)
  • Arondel 44 (ex-British Arundel)
  • Fortuna 52 (ex-British Fortune) - Wrecked 1716
  • London 54 (ex-British) - Wrecked 1719
  • Britania 50 (ex-British Great Allen)
  • Ritchmond 44 (ex-British Swiftsure)

Dutch-built for Russia

  • Malburg/Marlborough 60 (c. 1714)
  • Portsmut/Portsmouth 54 (c. 1714) - Wrecked 1719
  • Devonshir/Devonshire 52 (c. 1714)
  • Rotterdam 56 (c. 1721) - Renamed Nishtat, wrecked 1721
  • Prints Evgenii 50 (c. 1721)

Russian-built battleships

  • Uriil 52 (c. 1715)
  • Selafail 52 (c. 1715)
  • Varachail 52 (c. 1715)
  • Yagudiil 52 (c. 1715) - Sold 1722
  • Moskva 64 - Wrecked 1758
  • Revel 68 (1717)
  • Sv. Aleksandr 70 (1717)
  • Neptun(us) 70 (1717)
  • Gangut 90
  • Lyesnoe 90
  • Fridrichshtat 90
  • Syevernyi Orel 80
  • Isak Viktoria 66 (1719)
  • Sv. Ekaterina 66 (1721)
  • Sv. Andrei 80
  • Fridemaker 80 (1721)
  • Astrachan? 64 (1721)
  • St Michael? 50 (1723)
  • Derbent 66 (c. 1725)
  • Syevernyi Orel 66 - Razéed to 32-gun hospital ship 1769, BU
  • Sv. Ekaterina 80 (ex-Swedish Prints George)
  • Kir Ioann 80 (ex-Swedish Fridrich Reks)
  • Tver 66
  • Ne tron menya 66 - Razéed to frigate c. 1772, sold for BU c. 1773
  • Moskva 66
  • Saratov 66
  • Gorod Archangelsk 54
  • Azia 54 - Sank c. 1773
  • Sviatoslav 80 - Flagship at the Battle of Chesma, 1770, scuttled 1770
  • Evropa 66
  • Sv. Yevstafy 66 - Blew up at the Battle of Chesma, 1770
  • Trech Svyatitelei 66 - Sold for BU c. 1773
  • Sv. Ianuarii 66 - Sold for BU c. 1773
  • Trech Ierarchov 66
  • Slava Yekaterine (1779?)
  • Vladislav 74 - Captured by Sweden 1788, renamed Wladislaff
  • Prints Gustaf 70 (ex-Swedish Prints Gustaf, captured 1788)
  • Graf Orlov 66
  • Pobyeda 66
  • Isidor 74
  • Aleksandr Nevskii 66
  • Mironosits 66
  • Dmitrii Donskoi 66
  • Iosif 80
  • Vladimir 66
  • Sv. Aleksandr Nevskii 54
  • Vsevolod 66
  • Rostislav 66
  • Slava Ekateriny 66 - Renamed Preobrazhenie Gospodne
  • Sv. Pavel 66
  • Maria Magdalina 66 - Captured by Turkey 1787
  • Sv. Georgii Pobyedonosets 54
  • Sv. Andrei Pervozvannyi/Apostol Andrei 50
  • Retvizan 64 (ex-Swedish, captured 1789/90) - Captured by Britain 1808
  • Maria Magdalina 66 (c. 1789)
  • Sv. Petr Apostol 46 (c. 1789)
  • Ioann Bogoslov 46 (c. 1789)
  • Bogoyavlenie Gospodne 66 (c. 1792)
  • Sv. Troitsa 66 (c. 1792)
  • Soshestvie Sv. Ducha 46 (c. 1792)
  • Grigorii Velikia Armenii 50 (c. 1792)
  • Kazanskaya Bogoroditsa 46 (c. 1792)
  • Sv. Pavel 84
  • Zacharii i Elizaveta 74
  • Simeon i Anna 74
  • Iosif II 80 - Renamed Rozhdestvo Christovo (possibly same as Iosif, above)
  • Tsar Konstantin 46
  • Feodor Stratilat 46
  • Isidor 74
  • Azia 74
  • Varachail 68
  • Pobyeda 66
  • Paraskevia 74 - Captured by France 1809
  • Sv. Elena 74 - Captured by Britain 1808
  • Uriil 84 - Captured by France 1809
  • Yaroslav 74 - Captured by Britain 1808
  • Moskva 74 - Captured by France 1809
  • Sv. Petr 74 - Captured by France 1809
  • Selafail 74 - Captured by Britain 1808
  • Sadd al-Bahr 84 (ex-Turkish Sadd al-Bahr, captured 1807) - Captured by France 1809
  • Rafail 84 - Captured by Britain 1808
  • Silnyi 74 - Captured by Britain 1808, released 1813
  • Tverdyi 74 - Captured by Britain 1808
  • Moshtchnyi 74 - Captured by Britain 1808, released 1813
  • Skoryi 64 - Captured by Britain 1808
  • Pravyi 74
  • Ratnyi 110
  • Yagudiil 110
  • Poltava 110
  • Dmitrii Donskoi 74
  • Gangut 84
  • Azov 80 - Russian flagship at the Battle of Navarino 1827
  • Iezekiil 80
  • Aleksandr Nevskii 80
  • Fershampenuaz 74
  • Tsar Konstantin 74
  • Knyaz Vladimir 74
  • Nord Ayde (Severny Orel) 74 (1811) - Sold to Spain 1819, renamed España, stricken 1821
  • Neptun/Neptunus 74 (1813) - Sold to Spain 1819, renamed Fernando VII, stricken 1823
  • Dreszden 74 (1813) - Sold to Spain 1819, renamed Alejandro I, stricken 1823
  • Ljubeck 74 (1813) - Sold to Spain 1819, renamed Numancia I, BU 1823
  • Epifania/Krestshenie Gospodne 74 (1813) - Sold to Spain 1819, renamed Velasco, stricken 1821
  • Sysoi Velikii 74
  • Sviatoi Andrei 74
  • Emmanuil 64 - Sold to Greece c. 1830
  • Veliki Kniaz Mikhail 74
  • Panteleimon 80
  • Ioann Zlatoust 74
  • Pimen 74
  • Nord-Adler 74
  • Parmen 74
  • Skoryi 74
  • Imperator Frantz 110
  • Parizh 110
  • Imperatritsa Mariia 84 (1827)
  • Chesme 84 (1828)
  • Anapa 84 (1829)
  • Pamiat' Evstafii 84 (1830)
  • Adrianopol' 84 (1830)
  • Imperatritsa Ekaterina II 84 (1831)
  • Varshava 84 (1833)
  • Silistriia 84 (1835)
  • Sultan Mahmud 86 (1836)
  • Tri Sviatitelia 120 (1838)
  • Trekh Ierarkhov 84 (1838)
  • Varna 84 (1842)
  • Varshava 120
  • Ezekiel - Stricken 1862
  • Imperator Petr I - Stricken 1862
  • Imperatritsa Alexandra - Stricken 1862
  • Krasnoi - Stricken 1862
  • Netron Menya - Stricken 1862
  • Pamiat Azova - Stricken 1862
  • Prokhor - Stricken 1862
  • Veliki Kniaz Mikhail - Stricken 1862
  • Vladimir - Stricken 1862
  • Imperator Nicolai I 111 (1860)
  • Sinop 131 (1860)
  • Tsessarevitch 135 (1860)
  • Constantin 74
  • Gangut 81
  • Orel 74
  • Retvisan 84
  • Viborg 74
  • Vola 84

[edit] References

  • Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905 - Conway Maritime Press
  • Naval Wars in the Baltic 1553-1850 (1910) - R. C. Anderson
  • Russian seapower and the Eastern question, 1827-41 (1991) - John C. K. Daly ISBN 1557507260
  • Mariner's Mirror (various issues)