russian battleship second class battleships imperial_russian_navy built world war class russian dreadnoughts named russian victory sweden completed winter ready combat role defend mouth germans tried enter spent time training providing cover laying operations laid lack trained crew suffered devastating fire following year proposals reconstruct different ways years carried discussed served source spare parts sister ships barracks ship finally struck navy list scrapping began rate intentionally grounded late prevent sunk location germans refloated scrapped beginning design meters long waterline meters long overall beam meters draft meters centimeters designed displacement tonnes long tons short tons load long tons short tons designed displacement long tons short tons machinery built parsons steam turbines drove propellers engine rooms located turrets transverse compartments outer compartments high pressure ahead reverse turbine wing propeller shaft central engine room low pressure ahead astern turbines cruising turbines driving centre shafts engines total designed output shaft horsepower produced shp speed trials november gave speed knots mph small tube boilers provided steam engines designed working pressure standard kpa psi boiler fitted oil mixed oil coal burning arranged groups forward group consisted boiler rooms second turret foremost boilers second rear group second turrets comprised compartments boilers load carried long tons coal long tons fuel oil provided range nautical miles speed knots main armament consisted dozen inch pattern calibre guns mounted triple turrets distributed length ship russians believe super firing turrets offered advantage discounted value fire believed super firing turrets fire lower turret muzzle blast problems believed distributing turrets associated magazines length ship improved ship sixteen inch calibre pattern guns mounted casemates secondary battery intended defend ship torpedo boats completed single inch calibre anti aircraft gun mounted quarterdeck anti aircraft guns probably added course world war details lacking conway says millimeter added roofs end turrets war inch submerged torpedo tubes mounted torpedoes tube service built saint_petersburg laid june launched july end october struck sister jammed anchor damaged hull delayed trials late november entered service december reached assigned gunnery torpedo trials postponed thick winter ice ship class perform power speed trial november played passive world war role prevent germans breaking germans tried ran aground june suffered little damage crew participated february revolution evacuated march despite winter ice shortage crew placed long term conservation october november fire broke forward boiler room interior henceforth source spare parts sisters class battlecruiser considered conversion aircraft carrier service black_sea proved ambitious expensive given state soviet economy shortly end russian civil war modest goal restore original configuration actually began work exhausted allotted funds february time estimated complete january given recently deceased military leader subsequent plans focused modernized equivalent sisters battlecruiser turret deleted save weight considered finally abandoned january work stopped approved plan turn floating battery capacity spare project cancelled july period barracks hulk stripped parts formally discarded december scrapping begun pace german invasion towed run aground late july near siege hull base small ships raised towed scrapped beginning world war turrets guns rebuild coast defence battery remained service
Russian battleship Poltava (1911)