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| Career |
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| Builder: |
Admiralty Shipyards, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Laid down: |
July, 1889 |
| Launched: |
September, 1901 |
| Completed: |
August, 1904 |
| Commissioned: |
1 September 1904 |
| Fate: |
Sunk, Battle of Tsushima, 27 May 1905 |
| General characteristics |
| Displacement: |
13,516 tons standard; 14151 tons full load |
| Length: |
397 ft (121 m) |
| Beam: |
76 ft (23.2 m) |
| Draught: |
26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Propulsion: |
Two Shaft Reciprocating Vertical Triple Expansion (VTE) Steam Engines; 12 Bellville coal fired Boilers; 15,800 shp (12 mW) |
| Fuel: |
Coal, 1580 tons |
| Speed: |
18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Complement: |
28 officers, 754 men |
| Armament: (305 mm) |
- 4 × 12 in (305 mm) guns (2 × 2)
- 12 × 6 in (152 mm) guns (6 × 2)
- 20 × 75 mm (20 × 1)
- 20 × 47 mm (20 × 1)
- 4 × 15 in (381 mm) torpedo tubes
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| Armour: |
Krupp armour
- Belt - 7.6 in (193 mm)
- Turrets - 10 in (254 mm) max
- Deck - 2 in (51 mm)
- Anti-torpedo bulkhead - 1 in (25 mm)
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The Borodino (Russian: Бородино) was a Borodino-class battleship, it was the second ship of the class to be completed. The ship was named after the 1812 Battle of Borodino.
[edit] Service Life
Borodino was, as part of the Second Pacific Squadron, present at the Tsushima under Admiral Rozhestvensky, where it was sunk on 27 May 1905.
[edit] References
- Antony Preston, World's Worst Warships (2002) Conways Maritime Press
- Tomitch, V. M., Warships of the Imperial Russian Navy (1968) Volumne 1, Battleships
- Corbett, Julian, Sir. Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905. Originally classified Secret/Confidential until the 1950s. Published (1994), in two volumnes. ISBN 1557501297.
- Semenov, Vladimir, Capt. The Battle of Tsushima. E.P. Dutton & Co. (1912).
- Pleshakov, Constantine. The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Voyage to the Battle of Tsushima. (2002) ISBN 0-46505-792-6.
