"World War I battleships of Russia"
Preceded by: Borodino class battleship[note 1]
Succeeded by: Gangut class battleship
Built: 1904–1911
In commission: 1911–1924
Planned: 2
Completed: 2
Scrapped: 2
General characteristics as built
Class and type: Predreadnought battleship
Displacement: 17,320 long tons (17,600 t)
18,580 long tons (18,880 t) deep load
Length: 460 ft 0 in (140.2 m)
Beam: 80 ft 0 in (24.38 m)
Draught: 27 ft 0 in (8.23 m) at standard displacement
Installed power: 17,600 ihp (13,100 kW)
Propulsion:
2 shafts, Vertical triple-expansion steam engines
25 coal-fired Belleville water-tube boilers
Speed: 18.5 knots (34.3 km/h; 21.3 mph)
Range: 2,100 nmi (3,900 km; 2,400 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement: 956
Armament:
2 × 2 – 12-inch (305 mm) guns
4 × 2, 6 × 1 – 8-inch (203 mm) guns
12 × 1 – 120 mm (4.7 in) guns
4 × 1 – 47 mm (1.9 in) guns
2 × 1 – 18.0-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes, 6 torpedoes
Armour:
Belt: 4–8.5 inches (102–216 mm)
Upper belt: 3.1–5 inches (79–127 mm)
Casemates: 3.1–5 inches (79–127 mm)
Conning tower: 4–8 inches (102–203 mm)
Main gun turrets: 8–10 inches (203–254 mm)
Main gun barbettes: 4–5 inches (102–127 mm)
Secondary gun turrets: 5–6 inches (127–152 mm)
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Career (Russian Empire) Imperial Russian Navy
Name: Evstafi
Namesake: Saint Eustace
Builder: Nikolayev Admiralty Shipyard, Nikolayev
Laid down: 13 November 1904
Launched: 3 November 1906
In service: 28 May 1911
Out of service: March 1918
Renamed: Revoliutsiia (Revolution) on 6 July 1921
Struck: 21 November 1925
Fate: Scrapped 1922–23
General characteristics
Class and type: Evstafi-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement: 12,738 long tons (12,942 t)
Length: 385 ft 9 in (117.6 m)
Beam: 74 ft (22.6 m)
Draught: 28 ft (8.5 m)
Installed power: 10,600 ihp (7,904 kW)
Propulsion: 2 shafts, 2 Vertical triple expansion steam engines
22 coal-fired Belleville water-tube boilers
Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Range: 2,100 nmi (3,900 km; 2,400 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 928
Armament: 2 × 2 - 12-inch (305 mm) guns
4 × 1 - 8-inch (203 mm) guns
12 × 1 - 6-inch (152 mm) guns
14 × 1 - 75-millimetre (3.0 in) guns
2 × 1 - 17.7-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour: Krupp armour
Belt: 7–9 inches (178–229 mm)
Deck: 1.37–2.75 inches (35–70 mm)
Turrets: 10 inches (254 mm)
Barbettes: 10 inches (254 mm)
Conning tower: 8 inches (203 mm)
Bulkheads: 7 inches (178 mm)
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Career (Russian Empire)
Name: Gangut
Namesake: Battle of Gangut
Builder: Admiralty Works, Saint Petersburg
Laid down: 16 June 1909[Note 1]
Launched: 20 October 1911
Commissioned: 11 January 1915
Career (Soviet Union)
Name: Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya
Namesake: October Revolution
Acquired: November 1917
Renamed: 27 June 1925
Reclassified: 24 July 1954
Struck: 17 February 1956
Honors and
awards: Order of the Red Banner 22 July 1944
General characteristics
Class and type: Gangut-class battleship
Displacement: 24,800 tonnes (24,400 long tons; 27,300 short tons)
Length: 181.2 m (594 ft)
Beam: 26.9 m (88 ft)
Draft: 8.99 m (29.5 ft)
Propulsion: 4-shaft Parsons steam turbines
25 Yarrow Admiralty-type watertube boilers
52,000 shp (38,776 kW) (on trials)
Speed: 24.1 knots (27.7 mph; 44.6 km/h) (on trials)
Range: 3,200 nautical miles (5,900 km) at 10 knots (12 mph; 19 km/h)
Complement: 1,149
Armament: 4 × 3 - 12-inch (305 mm)/52 guns
16 × 1 - 4.7-inch (119 mm) guns
1 × 1 - 3-inch (76 mm) Lender AA gun
4 × 1 - 17.7-inch (450 mm) submerged torpedo tubes
Armor: Waterline belt: 125–225 mm (4.9–8.9 in)
Deck: 12–50 mm (0.47–2.0 in)
Turrets: 76–203 mm (3.0–8.0 in)
Barbettes: 75–150 mm (3.0–5.9 in)
Conning tower: 100–254 mm (3.9–10.0 in)
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Career
Name: Imperator Aleksandr III
Namesake: Czar Alexander III
Operator: Imperial Russian Navy
Ordered: 13 April 1912[Note 1]
Builder: Russud Shipyard, Nikolayev
Laid down: 30 October 1911
Launched: 15 April 1914
In service: 17 July 1917
Renamed: Volia (Freedom) on 29 April 1917
Career
Name: Volia
Operator: Soviet Navy
Acquired: November 1917
Fate: Turned over to the German Empire 19 June 1918
Career
Name: Volia
Operator: Kaiserliche Marine
Acquired: 19 June 1918
Fate: turned over to the United Kingdom 24 November 1918
Career
Name: General Alekseyev
Namesake: Mikhail Alekseyev
Operator: Russia
Acquired: 1 November 1919
Out of service: 29 December 1920
Renamed: General Alekseyev November 1919
Fate: Scrapped 1936
General characteristics
Class and type: Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleship
Displacement: 23,413 long tons (23,789 t)
Length: 168 m (551 ft)
Beam: 27.43 m (90.0 ft)
Draft: 8.36 m (27.4 ft)
Propulsion: 4-shaft Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 20 Yarrow water-tube boilers
26,000 shp (19,000 kW)
Speed: 21 knots (24 mph; 39 km/h)
Range: 1,640 nautical miles (3,037 km) at 21 knots (24 mph; 39 km/h)
Complement: 1,154
Armament: 4 × 3 - 12-inch (305 mm)/52 guns
18 × 1 - 130-millimeter (5.1 in)/55 guns
4 × 1 - 76.2-millimeter (3 in)/38 'Lender' AA guns
4 × 1 - 17.7-inch (450 mm) submerged torpedo tubes
Armor: Waterline belt: 125–262.5 mm (4.9–10.33 in)
Deck: 9–50 mm (0.35–2.0 in)
Turrets: 250 mm (9.8 in)
Barbettes: 250 mm (9.8 in)
Conning tower: 300 mm (11.8 in)
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Career
Name: Imperatritsa Mariya
Namesake: Maria Feodorovna
Operator: Imperial Russian Navy
Ordered: 13 April 1912[Note 1]
Builder: Russud Shipyard, Nikolayev
Laid down: 30 October 1911
Launched: 19 October 1913
In service: 10 June 1915
Out of service: Sunk by internal explosion 20 October 1916
Struck: 21 November 1925
Fate: scrapped beginning 1926
General characteristics
Class and type: Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleship
Displacement: 23,413 long tons (23,789 t)
Length: 168 m (551 ft)
Beam: 27.43 m (90.0 ft)
Draft: 8.36 m (27.4 ft)
Installed power: 26,000 shp (19,000 kW)
Propulsion: 4-shaft Brown-Curtiss steam turbines, 20 Yarrow water-tube boilers
Speed: 21 knots (24 mph; 39 km/h)
Range: 1,640 nautical miles (3,037 km) at 21 knots (24 mph; 39 km/h)
Complement: 1,213
Armament: 4 × 3 - 12-inch (305 mm)/52 guns
20 × 1 - 130-millimeter (5.1 in)/55 B7 Pattern 1913 guns
4 × 1 - 75-millimeter (3.0 in) AA guns
4 × 1 - 17.7-inch (450 mm) submerged torpedo tubes
Armor: Waterline belt: 125–262.5 mm (4.9–10.33 in)
Deck: 9–50 mm (0.35–2.0 in)
Turrets: 250 mm (9.8 in)
Barbettes: 250 mm (9.8 in)
Conning tower: 300 mm (11.8 in)
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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
Armament:
4 × 10-inch (254 mm) guns (2 × 2),
11 × 6-inch (152 mm) guns (11 × 1),
20 × 75 mm guns (20 × 1),
20 x 47 mm guns
6 x 37 mm guns
5 × 15-inch (381 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:
mainly Krupp armour with some Harvey armour
Belt 229 mm (9 inch),
Barbettes 203 mm (8 inch),
Turrets 254 mm (10 inch),
Deck 63 mm (2.5 inch),
Casemates 127 mm (5 inch)
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Name: Petropavlovsk
Namesake: Siege of Petropavlovsk
Builder: Baltic Works, Saint Petersburg
Laid down: 16 June 1909[Note 1]
Launched: 22 September 1911
Commissioned: 5 January 1915
Career
Name: Marat
Namesake: Jean-Paul Marat
Volkhov River
Acquired: November 1917
Renamed: Marat 31 March 1921
Petropavlovsk 31 May 1943
Volkhov 28 November 1950
Struck: 4 September 1953
Fate: Scrapped after September 1953
General characteristics
Class and type: Gangut-class battleship
Displacement: 24,800 tonnes (24,408 long tons)
Length: 181.2 m (594 ft 6 in)
Beam: 26.9 m (88 ft 3 in)
Draft: 8.99 m (29 ft 6 in)
Installed power: 52,000 shp (38,776 kW) (on trials)
Propulsion: 4-shaft Parsons steam turbines
25 Yarrow Admiralty-type watertube boilers
Speed: 24.1 knots (44.6 km/h; 27.7 mph) (on trials)
Range: 3,200 nautical miles (5,900 km; 3,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 1,149
Armament: 4 × 3 - 12-inch (305 mm)/52 guns
16 × 1 - 4.7-inch (119 mm) guns
1 × 1 - 3-inch (76 mm) Lender AA gun
4 × 1 - 17.7-inch (450 mm) submerged torpedo tubes
Armor: Waterline belt: 125–225 mm (4.9–8.9 in)
Deck: 12–50 mm (0.47–2.0 in)
Turrets: 76–203 mm (3.0–8.0 in)
Barbettes: 75–150 mm (3.0–5.9 in)
Conning tower: 100–254 mm (3.9–10.0 in)
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Career (Russia)
Name: Poltava
Builder: New Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Laid down: 7 May 1892
Launched: 6 November 1894
Commissioned: 1898
Out of service: Captured by the Japanese after the Siege of Port Arthur
Renamed: Chesma in 1916
Struck: 1922
Reinstated: Returned on 4 April 1916
Career (Japan)
Name: Tango
Commissioned: 22 August 1905
Out of service: Returned to Russia on 4 April 1916
Career (Soviet Union)
Name: Chesma
Fate: Captured by the British in 1923 and scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type: Petropavlovsk-class battleship
Displacement:
10,960 tons (normal)
11,400 tons (max)
Length: 111.9 m (367 ft)
Beam: 21 m (69 ft)
Draft: 7.8 m (26 ft)
Propulsion:
Three Shaft Reciprocating Vertical Triple Expansion (VTE) Engines
16 boilers
14,500 shp
Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h)
Range:
4,000 nautical miles (7,400 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
1,330 tons coal carried
Complement: 668
Armament:
4 × 305 mm
10 × 152 mm
16 × 80 mm
6 × 450 mm torpedo tubes
Armour:
belt 100–230 mm
deck 60 mm
gun mount 127 mm
casemate 127 mm
turret 150–250 mm
conning tower 100–150 mm
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Career
Name: Rostislav (Ростислав)
Namesake: Rostislav I of Kiev
Operator: Imperial Russian Navy
Builder: Nikolayev Admiralty
Laid down: January 30, 1894 (actual)
May 19, 1895 (formal)[Note 1]
Launched: September 2, 1896[1]
Christened: May 20, 1894
Completed: March 1900
Fate: Scuttled in the Strait of Kerch, November 1920
General characteristics
Type: Pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement: 8,880 long tons (9,020 t) (designed)
10,520 long tons (10,689 t) (actual)[2]
Length: 351 ft 10 in (107.2 m)
Beam: 68 ft (20.7 m)
Draft: 22 ft (6.7 m) (designed)
25 ft 2 in (7.7 m) (actual)
Installed power: 8,500 ihp (6,300 kW)
Propulsion: 2 shafts, 2 Vertical triple-expansion steam engines
8 fire-tube boilers
Speed: 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Range: 4,100 nautical miles (7,600 km; 4,700 mi) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement: 633 (1900), 831–852 (World War I)[2]
Armament:
2 × 2 – 10-inch (254 mm) guns
4 × 2 – 6-inch (152 mm) guns
12 × 1 – 47-millimetre (1.9 in) guns
16 × 1 – 37-millimetre (1.5 in) guns[Note 2]
6 × 15-inch (381 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour: Harvey armor
Belt: 14.5 in (368 mm)
Deck: 2–3 in (51–76 mm)
Turrets: 10 in (254 mm)
Conning tower: 6 in (152 mm)
Bulkheads: 5–9 in (127–229 mm)
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Name: Tri Sviatitelia
Operators: Russian Navy
Preceded by: Navarin
Succeeded by: Sissoi Veliky
Built: 1891–1896
In commission: 1896–1923
Completed: 1
Scrapped: 1
Career (Russian Empire)
Name: Tri Sviatitelia (Russian: Три Святителя)
Namesake: Three Holy Hierarchs
Operator: Imperial Russian Navy
Builder: Nikolayev Dockyard
Laid down: 15 August 1891[Note 1]
Launched: 12 November 1893
Completed: 1896
Struck: 21 November 1925
Fate: Scrapped 1922
General characteristics
Type: Pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement: 13,318 long tons (13,532 t)
Length: 378 ft (115.2 m)
Beam: 73 ft 3 in (22.3 m)
Draught: 28 ft 6 in (8.7 m)
Installed power: 10,600 ihp (7,904 kW)
Propulsion: 2 shafts, 2 Vertical triple expansion steam engines
14 coal-fired fire-tube boilers
Speed: 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph)
Range: 2,250 nmi (4,170 km; 2,590 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 730
Armament: 2 × 2 – 12-inch (305 mm) guns
8 × 1 – 6-inch (152 mm) guns
4 × 1 – 4.7-inch (119 mm) guns
10 × 1 – 47-millimetre (1.9 in) guns
40 × 1 – 37-millimetre (1.5 in) guns
6 × 1 – 15-inch (381 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour: Harvey armour
Belt: 16–18 inches (406–457 mm)
Deck: 2–3 inches (51–76 mm)
Turrets: 16 inches (406 mm)
Conning tower: 12 inches (305 mm)
Bulkheads: 14–16 inches (356–406 mm)
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Name: Novík
Operator: Imperial Russian Navy
Builder: Putilovsky Plant, St. Petersburg
Laid down: 1 July 1910
Launched: 4 July 1911
Commissioned: 9 September 1913
Fate: Joined the Bolsheviks, November 1917
General characteristics
Displacement: 1,260 tonnes (1,240 long tons; 1,390 short tons) (normal)
1,590 tonnes (1,560 long tons; 1,750 short tons)
Length: 102.4 m (335 ft 11 in)
Beam: 9.5 m (31 ft 2 in)
Draught: 7.2 m (23 ft 7 in)
Propulsion: 3 shafts, AEG-Vulcan turbines
6 Vulcan water-tube boilers
39,000 shp (29,000 kW)
Speed: 37.3 knots (42.9 mph; 69.1 km/h) (trials)
Endurance: 2,000 nmi (3,700 km) at 21 knots (39 km/h)
Complement: 142 men
Armament: 4 × 1 - 102 mm (4.0 in) guns
4 × 1 - Maxim machine guns
4 × 2 - 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes
60 mines
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Name: Som
Builders: Chrichton Yard, St Petersburg (now Petrozavod, St Petersburg)
Operators: Imperial Russian Navy
In commission: 1910–1918
Completed: 4
Lost: 4
General characteristics
Type: Submarine
Displacement: 409 tons surfaced
482 tons submerged
Length: 40.2 m
Beam: 4.3 m
Draught: 4.9 m
Propulsion: 2 shafts: petrol/ electric
1200 hp / 400 hp
Speed: 10.5 knots surfaced / 7 knots submerged
Range: 1050 nm at 8 knots
Complement: 34
Armament: 4 18 inch torpedo tube (2 bow / 2 stern), 1 machine gun
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Name: Kasatka
Builders: Baltic works
Operators: Imperial Russian Navy
In commission: 1904–1922
Completed: 6
Lost: 2
Retired: 4
General characteristics
Type: Submarine
Displacement: 140 tons surfaced
177 tons submerged
Length: 33.5 m
Beam: 3.5 m
Draught: 3.4 m
Propulsion: 1 shaft petrol/ electric (later diesel electric)
200 hp/100 hp
Speed: 8.5 knots surfaced / 5.5 knots submerged
Complement: 24
Armament: 4 external torpedoes in drop collars, 1 machine gun (later 1 x 47mm gun)
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Name: Narval class
Builders: Nikolayev Dockyard
Operators: Imperial Russian Navy
Ukrainian Navy
In commission: 1914–1919
Completed: 3
Lost: 3
General characteristics
Type: Submarine
Displacement: 621 tons surfaced
994 tons submerged
Length: 70.1 m (230.0 ft)
Beam: 6.5 m (21.3 ft)
Draught: 3.5 m (11.5 ft)
Installed power: 640 hp (480 kW) (diesel)
900 hp (670 kW) (electric)
Propulsion:
2 shafts
Diesel-electric propulsion
4 diesel engines (2 per shaft)
Speed:
9.5 kn (17.6 km/h) (surfaced)
11.5 kn (21.3 km/h) (submerged)
Range:
12 days, 3500 miles at 6.5 knots
103 miles under water at 4 knots
Complement: 47
Armament:
2 × bow 450 mm (18-inch) torpedo tubes
2 × stern 450 mm (18-inch) torpedo tubes
4-8 × external torpedo drop collars
1 × 75 mm gun (76 mm in Kashalot)
2 × 7.62 mm machine guns
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Class and type: American Holland class
Name: AG 13
Builder: Electric Boat Company
Completed: 1916
Fate: accidentally sunk, but raised
Renamed: AG 16
Commissioned: 21 July 1917
Fate: scuttled 3 April 1918
Career (Finland)
Name: AG 16
Commissioned: not commissioned
Fate: scrapped; beyond repair
General characteristics
Type: AG-type diesel-powered submarine
Displacement: 355 long tons (361 t) surfaced
433 long tons (440 t) submerged
Length: 150 ft 3 in (45.80 m)
Beam: 16 ft (4.9 m)
Draught: 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
Propulsion: 2 shafts
2 diesel engines (480 bhp (360 kW))
2 electric motors (640 hp (480 kW))
Speed: 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) (surfaced)
10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) (submerged)
Range: 1,750 nmi (3,240 km; 2,010 mi) at 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) (surfaced)
25 nmi (46 km; 29 mi) at 3 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) (submerged)
Test depth: 50 metres (160 ft)
Complement: 30
Armament: 4 × bow 17.9-inch (455 mm) torpedo tubes
(8 torpedoes)
1 × 47-millimetre (1.9 in) gun
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Name: Minoga
Ordered: 1906
Builder: Baltic Yard in St Petersburg, Baltic Sea
Launched: 24 October 1908
Out of service: 1922
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Displacement: 123 tons surfaced
155 tons submerged
Length: 32.6 m
Beam: 2.8 m
Draft: 2.8 m
Propulsion: 1 shaft Diesel electric
2 diesel engines 240 hp
1 electric motor 70 hp
Speed: 11 knots (20.4 km/h) surfaced
5 knots (9 km/h) submerged
Range: 600 nautical miles surfaced, 50 nm submerged
Complement: 22
Armament: 2 x 18-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes (bow)
1 x 37 mm gun
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Name: Krab
Ordered: 1908
Builder: Naval yard in Nikolayev, Black Sea
Launched: September 1912
Commissioned: 1915
In service: 1915 - 1917
Fate: Scuttled April 1919, raised 1935 and scrapped
General characteristics
Displacement: 512 tons surface
740 tons submerged
Length: 52.8 m
Beam: 4.3 m
Draft: 3.9 m
Propulsion: 2 shaft gasoline electric
4 petrol engines 1,200 hp
2 electric motors 400 hp
Speed: 11.8 knots (21.9 km/h) surfaced
7 knots (13 km/h) submerged
Range: 1,700 nautical miles
Complement: 50
Armament: 2 x 18-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes (bow) and two torpedo drop collars
1 x 75 mm gun
2 x machine guns
60 mines
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Name: Delfin
Builder: Baltic plant, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Launched: 1902
Commissioned: 1903
Decommissioned: 1917
General characteristics
Type: Submarine
Displacement: 113 tons surfaced
126 tons submerged
Length: 19.6 m
Beam: 3.3 m
Draught: 2.9 m
Propulsion: 1 shaft petrol / electric
300 hp/120 hp
Speed: 9 knots surfaced
4.5 knots submerged
Complement: 22 officers and men
Armament: 2 external 15" torpedoes in drop collars