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| Career |
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| Builder: |
Baltic Works, Saint Petersburg |
| Laid down: |
July, 1901 |
| Launched: |
September, 1902 |
| Commissioned: |
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 Knyaz Suvorov (Russian: Князь Суворов) was a Borodino-class battleship built by Baltic Works, St Petersburg. Laid down July 1901, it was launched in September 1902 and completed in September 1904. This ship was named after the great 18th-century Russian general Alexander Suvorov.
[edit] Service Life
The Knyaz Suvorov had a short existence, serving for less than 9 months within the Imperial Russian Navy. She was completed at the beginning of September and had virtually no comprehensive sea trials, on 26 September 1904 Suvorov participated in a naval review for the Tsar. As a result, her crew was newly assigned and largely inexperienced. On 15 October, she left Russia together with the rest of the Second Pacific Squadron to the Far East.
Knyaz Suvorov was the flagship of Admiral Rozhestvensky at Tsushima, where it was sunk on 27 May 1905. She suffered numerous hits from explosive shells and eventually three torpedo hits.
[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 in (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
