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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.
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.
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The utter destruction of Russian naval power at Tsushima was the climactic action of the Russo-Japanese War. The Russian fleet had suffered such attrition from Japanese mines and combat with the Japanese fleet during 1904 that the Russian high command made the fateful decision to dispatch the Baltic Fleet in October of that year to the Pacific ...
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
The British ships were intended to defeat commerce-raiding armored cruisers like the Russian ships Rossia and Rurik, and the Peresvet class was designed to support their armored cruisers. This role placed a premium on high speed and long range at the expense of heavy armament and armor.
Rostislav was a pre-dreadnought battleship built by the Nikolaev Admiralty Shipyard in the 1890s for the Black Sea Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy.She was conceived as a small, inexpensive coastal defence ship, but the Navy abandoned the concept in favor of a compact, seagoing battleship with a displacement of 8,880 long tons (9,022 t).