Ex-Russian battleship Peresvet, which later became the Japanese battleship Sagami |
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| Career (Russia) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Peresvet |
| Namesake: | Alexander Peresvet |
| Builder: | Baltic Yards, Saint Petersburg |
| Laid down: | November 21, 1895 |
| Launched: | May 19, 1898 |
| Commissioned: | June 1901 |
| Out of service: | Sunk at her moorings after Battle of the Yellow Sea, August 1904 |
| Reinstated: | Returned to Russia, April 4, 1916 |
| Fate: | Mined off Port Said, Egypt, January 4, 1917 |
| Career (Japan) | |
| Name: | Sagami |
| Acquired: | Salvaged October 1905 |
| Out of service: | Returned to Russia, 4 April 1916 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Peresvet-class battleship |
| Displacement: | 12,674 long tons (12,877 t) normal 13,500 long tons (13,717 t) full load |
| Length: | 129.2 m (424 ft) |
| Beam: | 21.8 m (72 ft) |
| Draft: | 8.3 m (27 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 3-shaft Reciprocating Vertical Triple Expansion (VTE) Engines 14,500 shp (10,800 kW) 30 boilers 2,056 tons coal |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Range: | 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) 2,056 tons coal |
| Complement: | 783 |
| Armament: | • 4 × 254 mm (10 in) guns • 10 × 152 mm (6 in) guns • 16 × 80 mm (3.1 in) guns • 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes |
| Armour: | Belt: 100–230 mm (3.9–9.1 in) Deck: 60 mm (2.4 in) Gun mount: 127 mm (5 in) Casemate: 127 mm (5 in) Turret: 150–250 mm (5.9–9.8 in) Conning tower: 100–150 mm (3.9–5.9 in) |
Sagami (相模) was one of eight Russian pre-dreadnought battleships captured by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. It was built as the lead ship of the Peresvet-class of battleships, with a design inspired by the British battleship HMS Centurion. They were designed as essentially enlarged armoured cruisers, with good range and seakeeping, higher speed but weaker armour and armament than contemporary first class battleships. The Peresvet was one of three ships in its class: its sister ship Oslyabya was lost at the Battle of Tsushima, and Pobeda at Port Arthur.
The Peresvet fought in the Battle of the Yellow Sea but failed to escape and was subsequently sunk at her moorings in Port Arthur harbor by Japanese siege guns. Salvaged after the war in October 1905, she was refloated, repaired, and taken into service as the Sagami, taking her name from the ancient Japanese province of Sagami, now a part of Kanagawa prefecture.
On August 28, 1912, the Sagami was re-classified as a First-class Coastal Defense Vessel.
During World War I, Japan and Russia became allies, and the Sagami was returned to the Russian navy on April 4, 1916, where she resumed her former name of Peresvet. She was due to be the flagship of the Russian Arctic flotilla, but was sunk en route by mines laid by German submarine U-73 outside Port Said, Egypt on January 4, 1917.
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