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Retvizan (Ретвизан) was a pre-dreadnought battleship built before the Russo-Japanese War for the Imperial Russian Navy in the United States. She was built by the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Company of Philadelphia , although the armament was made at the Obukhov works in Saint Petersburg and shipped to America for ...
Ingermanland is a Russian tsar sailing battleship. It marks the beginning of Russia's great plan for ship construction. It was constructed in 1712, launched in 1715 and became the flagship of Peter the Great in the campaigns of 1716 and 1721 during the Great Northern War. It has a 46.02 meter and 12.8 meter wide deck and 5.56 meter hull height.
Gangut in 1915. The Gangut-class battleships were the first dreadnoughts begun for the Imperial Russian Navy before World War I.They had a convoluted design history involving several British companies, evolving requirements, an international design competition, and foreign protests.
Petropavlovsk (Russian: Петропавловск) was the lead ship of her class of three pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the last decade of the 19th century. The ship was sent to the Far East almost immediately after entering service in 1899, where she participated in the suppression of the Boxer ...
Although both battleship fleets were on nearly equal footing in regards to the latest in battleship technology, with the British warship designs representing the Imperial Japanese Navy, and predominately the French designs being favored by the Russian fleets; [23] it was the combat experience that Togo had accrued in the 1904 naval battles of ...
Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr III; Russian battleship Imperator Nikolai I (1916) Russian battleship Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya; Russian battleship Imperatritsa Mariya; Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleship; Russian battleship Ioann Zlatoust
This is a list of wars and armed conflicts involving Russia and its predecessors in chronological order, from the 9th to the 21st century.. The Russian military and troops of its predecessor states in Russia took part in a large number of wars and armed clashes in various parts of the world: starting from the princely squads, opposing the raids of nomads, and fighting for the expansion of the ...
The Soviet Navy, and the Russian Navy which inherited its traditions, had a different attitude to operational status than many Western navies. Ships went to sea less and maintained capability for operations while staying in harbor. [1] The significant changes which followed the collapse of the Soviet Union then complicated the picture enormously.