Ekaterina II class battleship

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Battleship Chesma

The Ekaterina II-class were a group of ironclad battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1880s. The design was unique in that three turrets were grouped in a triangle around a central armoured redoubt, two side by side forward and one on the centreline aft. Four ships were built for the Black Sea Fleet. Ekaterina II was built in Nikolayev. The other three ships were built in Sevastopol by the Russian Steam Navigation company.

[edit] General characteristics

Displacement: 11,032 tons - 11,396 tons
Length: 103.5 m
Beam: 21.03 m
Draught: 8.76 m
Machinery: 2 shaft,
- Ekaterina II & Chesma - 14 boilers VC steam engines 9100 hp
- Sinop & Georgi - 16 cylindrical boilers, VTE steam engines 13000 hp#
Speed: Ekaterina II & Chesma - 15 knots (28 km/h), Sinop & Georgi - 16 knots (30 km/h)
Armament: 6 - 12-inch (305 mm) guns (3 twin turrets)
7 - 6-inch (152 mm) guns
8 - 47 mm guns
7 torpedo tubes
Armour: compound armour - Belt 16 - 8 inch, redoubt 12 inch, Conning tower 9-12 inch
Crew: - 650-674

[edit] Ships

Ekaterina II (Екатерина II - Catherine the Great) - laid down 1883, launched May 1886, Completed 1889, decommissioned 1907
Chesma (Чесма - Battle of Chesma) - laid down 1883 , launched May 1886, completed 1889 - decommissioned 1907
Sinop (Синоп - battle of Sinop) - laid down 1883, launched June 1887, completed 1890, harbour guard ship 1907, Scrapped 1922
Georgi Pobedonosets ( Saint George the Victorious) - laid down 1889, launched 9 March 1892, completed 1894, captured by the Whites during the Russian revolution and interned in Bizerta, scrapped during 1920's