russian battleship russian catherine russia lead ship class pre dreadnought battleships built imperial_russian_navy 1880s crew considered unreliable crew battleship june engines propellers prevent joining turned port authorities stricken august designated april sunk torpedo target design description feet inches long waterline feet inches long overall beam feet inches draft feet inches inches designed displacement long tons load long tons designed displacement long tons cylinder vertical compound steam engines built fourteen cylindrical boilers built 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 sisters mainly inch gun mounts guns powered disappearing gun mounts rate fire minutes seconds aimed rounds forward mounts traverse bow beam total rounds gun carried main guns mounted low feet inches main deck caused extensive damage deck fired bow stern seven inch model calibre 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 forward aft central citadel seventh tube stern history named empress catherine russia class built ship laid june launched completed ran trials transferred fitted spent career naval general staff proposed gun powerful inch calibre guns replace compound armour krupp armor proved expensive machinery upgraded boilers replaced eighteen belleville water tube boilers engines converted triple expansion trials refit ihp speed knots mph november crew considered sympathetic revolutionary movement crew battleship june engines disabled prevent joining turned port authorities stricken august designated april sunk torpedo target remnants ship salvaged
Russian battleship Ekaterina II