Russian battleship Oslyabya |
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| Class overview | |
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| Builders: | Baltic Yard |
| Operators: | Imperial Russian Navy, Imperial Japanese Navy |
| Preceded by: | Borodino class battleship |
| Succeeded by: | Potemkin |
| Built: | 1898–1903 |
| In commission: | 1901–1922 |
| Completed: | 3 |
| Lost: | 2 |
| Retired: | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 12,683 tons standard |
| Length: | 133 m |
| Beam: | 21.8 m |
| Draught: | 8 m |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts, vertical triple-expansion engines 32 Bellville type coal fired Boilers 15,000 hp |
| Speed: | 18 kn (33 km/h) |
| Range: | 3500 |
| Complement: | 752 |
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| Armour: |
mainly Krupp armour with some Harvey armour
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The Peresvet-class were pre-dreadnought battleships of the Imperial Russian Navy. All three ships were lost by the Russians in the Russo-Japanese war. One ship was sunk at the Battle of Tsushima and two were captured after being sunk during the Siege of Port Arthur.
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These ships were 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.
Having heavy French influence, as with many Russian warships of the era, with round French style turrets and a high vulnerable free board. These ships were a pre-"Battlecruiser", designed with independent raiding in mind, intended to be cheaper than a 1st rate Battleship for colonial duty and faster than 1st rate battleships in order to evade pursuit while powerful enough to fend off any scout cruisers that can give chase.
The main armament consisted of two turrets each with two 254 mm (10 inch) guns.[1] These weapons were lighter than the 12-inch (300 mm) guns used in most other contemporary battleships. The turrets had electrical power with manual back up. The guns had an elevation range of −5 ° to +35 °. Each gun had a magazine capacity of 80 rounds. The secondary armament consisted of eleven 152 mm Canet guns; eight on the main deck in casements, two on the upper deck and a single gun in the bows as a bow chaser. The magazine capacity for the 152 mm weapons was 220 round per gun. The anti-torpedo boat guns were twenty 75mm Canet pattern with 300 rounds per gun. There were also twenty 47 mm guns and six 37 mm Hotchkiss guns. There were five torpedo tubes, three above water and two submerged.
The ships were protected by a mixture of Harvey armour and Krupp armour. The main belt was 95 m long and 2.55 m tall, designed with 1.44 m above the normal water line. However, the ships as built were overweight and when fully loaded the belt was below the waterline. A 100mm thick upper belt was fitted. The turret armour was ordered from Germany and may be the earliest Krupp armour ordered.
A three shaft layout was used with triple expansion steam engines. There were thirty model 1894 Belville type boilers. The electrical equipment consisted of four dynamos with a generating capacity of 555 kW.
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