russian battleship russian second ship class battleships built imperial_russian_navy 1880s ship completed proved overweight meant waterline armor belt submerged russian companies produce advanced armour machinery desired imported united_kingdom belgium spent career crew battleship june ship crew considered unreliable participate pursuit escort towed sought asylum turned port authorities stricken august fully dismantled decided use hull scale armour trials designated april gunnery target ship served torpedo target destroyers attacks settled eventually scrapped design description feet inches long waterline feet inches long overall beam feet inches draft feet inches inches designed displaced long tons load long tons designed displacement long tons cylinder vertical compound steam engines imported company fourteen cylindrical boilers imported provided steam engines engines total designed output indicated horsepower produced ihp trials gave speed knots mph load carried long tons coal provided range nautical miles speed knots mph nautical miles knots mph differed sister ships mainly main armament model caliber guns mounted twin barbette mounts forward aft forward mounts traverse bow beam total rear mount traverse range elevation guns mounted caused list guns trained traversing guns far produced list difficult machinery rotate guns fore aft position problem anticipated water tanks added counteract list proved virtually useless took hours fill problem partially cured equipment rearranged improve balance thorough solutions problem deemed expensive inadequate rate fire reportedly round seventeen minutes including training time rounds gun carried main guns mounted low feet inches main deck caused extensive damage deck fired bow stern fired light shell weighed heavy shell weighed light shell muzzle velocity heavy shell propelled velocity light shell maximum range yards fired elevation seven inch model caliber guns mounted broadside pivot mounts hull gun mounted stern hull millimeter revolving hotchkiss guns mounted small 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 forward aft central citadel seventh tube stern history named russian victory battle built laid late june launched completed served inactive probably mechanical problems conducted trials spherical observation balloons following year plans radical reconstruction boilers replaced rebuilding involved cutting deck replacing armament twin gun turrets equipped inch caliber guns inch caliber guns turrets armoured citadel krupp armor proved expensive cancelled armor turrets ordered turrets equip pre dreadnought construction crew battleship june crew considered unreliable participate pursuit escorted towed sought asylum ship turned port authorities stricken august fully dismantled decided use hull scale armour trials designated april fitted replica armour system class battleships test effectiveness towed position given list simulate descent angle shells fired long range ironically guns anchored meters away fired inch inch inch shells reduced charges simulate shells fired approximately yards away revealed significant weaknesses support structure armour plates deck protection class ships far construction incorporate served torpedo target destroyers attacks settled eventually scrapped
Russian battleship Chesma (1886)