russian battleship russian battleship russian battleship built imperial_russian_navy ship class named russian victory battle ship participated pursuit battleship june towed sought asylum proposals reconstruction modern guns better quality armor 1900s cancelled converted gunnery training ship inch guns removed exchange single inch guns turrets refitted torpedo act proposed operation heavily mined whites captured russian civil war engines destroyed british scrapped soviets beginning design development feet inches long waterline feet inches long overall beam feet inches draft inches designed displacement long tons load long tons designed displacement long tons large warship use vertical triple expansion steam engines having cylinder engines imported united_kingdom fourteen cylindrical boilers provided steam engines engines total designed output indicated horsepower produced indicated horsepower trials gave speed knots mph load carried long tons coal provided range nautical miles speed knots mph nautical miles knots mph differed sisters mainly design gun mounts inch model caliber guns mounted twin barbette mounts forward aft forward mounts traverse bow beam total rear mount traverse rate fire round minutes thirty seconds including training time rounds gun carried main guns mounted low feet inches main deck caused extensive damage deck fired bow stern seven inch model caliber guns mounted broadside pivot mounts hull gun mounted stern hull millimeter revolving hotchkiss guns mounted small projected hull pair mounted hull defend ship torpedo boats millimeter revolving hotchkiss guns mounted fighting carried seven water inch torpedo tubes tube forward able bear forward targets tubes mounted broadside fore aft central citadel seventh tube stern history named russian victory built laid late june launched june completed began trials middle boiler accident following year killed severely burned machinery upgraded new belleville water tube boilers ship suffered boiler explosion left seven sailors badly burned plans radical reconstruction docked replacement boilers involved cutting deck replacing armament twin gun turrets equipped inch caliber guns inch caliber guns turrets armored citadel krupp armor proved expensive cancelled participated pursuit battleship june towed romania naval general staff proposal radical reconstruction similar proposals reconstruct sister russo japanese war involved cutting deck replacing armament twin gun turrets equipped inch caliber guns compound armor replaced krupp armor new proposal differed older millimeter guns replaced inch guns originally planned rejected lacked speed stay main fleet armor obsolete withstand modern high explosive shell fire converted gunnery training ship inch caliber guns installed upper deck inch guns removed received single inch caliber guns turrets mounted upper deck ship original inch caliber guns replaced caliber guns added admiral salon guns added machine guns torpedo tubes removed received central fire control station spent world war refitted torpedo serve allow lead ships mined waters operation later cancelled captured germans april handed allies november british engines april abandoned whites prevent use advancing remained duration russian civil war captured sides occupied city turn abandoned fleet evacuated russian archives gradually scrapped underwater expedition leadership found wreck tentatively identified upside far
Russian battleship Sinop