Russian battleship Slava

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Career
Battleship Slava (1906)
Builder:	Baltic Shipyard, Saint Petersburg
Laid down:	October 1902
Launched:	August 1903
Commissioned:	June 1905
Fate:	Scuttled on October 17, 1917 near the isle of Muhu (today's Estonia}
General characteristics
Displacement:	13,516 tons (normal); 15,275 tons (max)
Length:	121.0 meters
Beam:	23.2 meters
Draught:	8.9 meters
Propulsion:	20 boilers Reciprocating vertical triple expansion (VTE) engines, 15,800 ihp (12mW) two shafts
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement:	796
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
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)

The Slava (Russian: Слава (Glory)) was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships. Commissioned too late to participate in the key naval Battle of Tsushima of the Russo-Japanese War, she survived while three of her sister ships were sunk during the battle and one was surrendered to the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Slava served in the Baltic during World War I and was engaged during the attack of the German High Seas Fleet against a squadron of the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Battle of the Gulf of Riga in August 1915. The Slava, sustaining heavy damage from the German dreadnought SMS Konig during the Battle of Moon Sound, began taking water which lowered her waterline. The channel being relatively shallow it made it impossible to escape, and she was eventually scuttled in the Moon Sound straight between the isle of Muhu (Moon) and the mainland.