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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)
Historically, the Borodino-class battleships established two records; under Russian Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky riding in his flagship, Knyaz Suvorov, he led the Russian battleship fleet on the longest coal powered journey ever conducted by a steel battleship fleet during wartime, a voyage of over 18,000 miles (29,000 km) one way.
Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (1894) Russian battleship Potemkin; R. Russian battleship Retvizan; S. Russian battleship Sevastopol (1895) Russian battleship Sinop; T.
By the second half of the 18th century, the Russian Navy had the fourth-largest fleet in the world after Great Britain, Spain and France. The Black Sea Fleet possessed 35 line-of-battle ships and 19 frigates (1787), and the Baltic Fleet had 23 ships of the line and 130 frigates (1788).
World War I battleships of Russia (1 C, 22 P) Pages in category "Battleships of the Imperial Russian Navy" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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.
After the end of the disastrous Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, the Imperial Russian Navy needed several years to absorb the lessons of that war, particularly from the Battle of Tsushima. Design work continued during this period, but designs for dreadnought battleships evolved constantly as new
Russian battleship Ioann Zlatoust; P. Russian battleship Peresvet; Peresvet-class battleship; Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (1911) Russian battleship Poltava (1894)