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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Inspection of the Black Sea Fleet in 1849, 1886. This is a list of Russian ships of the line from the period 1668–1860: The format is: Name, number of guns (rank/real amount), launch year (A = built in Arkhangelsk), fate (service = combat service, BU = broken up)
The Japanese battle fleet engaged them in the Battle of the Yellow Sea and forced most of the Russian ships to return to Port Arthur after killing the squadron commander and damaging his flagship. She was sunk by Japanese howitzers in December after the Japanese had gained control of the heights around the harbor.
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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.
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 ...
The Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleships (Project 23, Russian: Советский Союз), also known as "Stalin's Republics", were a class of battleships begun by the Soviet Union in the late 1930s but never brought into service. They were designed in response to the battleships being built by Germany. [25]
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
Poltava (Russian: Полтава) was a 54-gun ship of the line of the Imperial Russian Navy that was launched on 15 June [n 1] 1712 from Saint Petersburg.The ship was named after an important for Russia victory over the Swedish Empire in the Battle of Poltava [1] [2] and became the first battleship laid down and built at the St. Petersburg Admiralty.