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)