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Retvizan 1902

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Ретвизан [Retvizan]		300	Cramp, Philadelphia, USA	29.7.1899	23.10.1900	12/1901	sunk 6.12.1904

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	12900
Displacement full, t
Length, m	117.9
Breadth, m	22.0
Draught, m	7.92 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 24 Niclausse boilers
Power, h. p.	17000
Max speed, kts	18
Fuel, t	coal 2000
Endurance, nm(kts)	5500(10)
Armour, mm	belt: 229 - 127, belt ends: 51, turrets: 229 - 203, battery: 127, casemates: 127, deck: 76 - 51, CT: 254
Armament	2 x 2 - 305/38, 12 x 1 - 152/44 Canet, 20 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 2 x 1 - 63/17 Baranovski, 24 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 8 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94, 6 - 450 TT (1 bow, 4 beam, 1 stern)
Complement	738

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Project history

A three-funnelled, flush-deck ship, and the best Russian battleship so far described. The 305mm guns were in French-type turrets, 4 of the 152mm in upper deck casemates and 8 in a main deck battery.

Ship protection

The belt was complete, the lower strake from 1.2m below lwl to 1.1m above, being 229mm with a 127mm lower edge for 78m, and the upper strake to the main deck was 152mm between turrets, 178mm bulkheads closing these parts of the belt which tapered beyond to 51mm at bow and stern. The alloy steel armour deck was 51mm with 76mm slopes.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

The Retvizan was torpedoed in the Japanese attack at Port Arthur on 9.2.1904 when she took on 2100t water, and was damaged in the Yellow Sea battle where she was apparently hit by 18 305mm to 203mm shells. During the siege of Port Arthur she was hit by 13 280mm howitzer shells and sank on 6.12.1904. Three shells, one of which burst in a boiler room, were very damaging. She was raised and repaired by the Japanese and served as Hizen.