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Piotr Velikiy as battleship

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Пётр Великий [Piotr Velikiy] (ex-Крейсер [Kreyser])			Galerny Island, St. Petersburg	1.6.1869	27.8.1872	15.10.1876	TS 8.1903, hulk 5.1921

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	9790
Displacement full, t	10460
Length, m	103.5 oa 98.1 pp
Breadth, m	19.0
Draught, m	8.28 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 HRCR, 12 rectangular boilers
Power, h. p.	6400
Max speed, kts	12.3
Fuel, t	coal 1200
Endurance, nm(kts)	3600(10)
Armour, mm	wrought iron; belt: 356 - 292, belt ends: 254 - 203, citadel: 356, turrets: 356, deck: 76
Armament	2 x 2 - 305/17 obr. 1867, 6 x 1 - 87/17 4pdr obr. 1867, 2 x 4 - 25/40 Palmkrantz
Complement	440

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Project history

A turret ship of about 2.5m max freeboard and cut down aft except along the centre line. The firing of her heavy guns caused low temperature damage to hull and machinery in the winter of 1876-1877, and her original engines, which had never been satisfactory, were replaced by Messrs Elder during an extensive refit at Glasgow in 1881. Metacentric height is given as 2.64m it is not known at what loading - and not surprisingly she was a bad roller.

Ship protection

 The belt wan complete but nearly submerged at actual load displacement, and the citadel was only 49m long. The side armour had Hughes backing of 560mm of wood between the two 178mm plates. The armour deck was 76mm over the belt outside the citadel and 38mm over the latter.

Modernizations

1880: + 2 - 356 TC

1882: - 2 x 1 - 87/17, 2 - 356 TC; + 6 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 4 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 2 - 381 TT (bow); machinery was replaced by 2 VC, 12 oval boilers (8250hp, 14.3kts)

1907: ship was rebuilt (9790t normal, 12 cylindrical boilers, 5500hp, 12.9kts, 1500(10)nm, 714t of coal; new armament consisted of 4 x 1 - 203/49, 12 x 1 - 152/44 Canet, 12 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 4 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 8 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss

Naval service

The Piotr Velikiy was reconstructed in 1903-1907 and became a two-funnel high freeboard training ship with 4 203mm in sponsons at upper deck level and 12 152mm below on the original upper deck (officially re-classed as TS 11.3.1906). 21.5.1921 she became a mine/torpedo hulk and stricken only in April 1959.