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Sisoy Velikiy

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Сисой Великий [Sisoy Velikiy]			New Admiralty, St. Petersburg	6.8.1891	1.6.1894	30.8.1896	sunk 28.5.1905

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	10400
Displacement full, t
Length, m	107.2
Breadth, m	20.7
Draught, m	7.77
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 12 Belleville boilers
Power, h. p.	8500
Max speed, kts	15.7
Fuel, t	coal 1000
Endurance, nm(kts)	4440(10)
Armour, mm	Nickel steel; belt: 406 - 102, turrets: 305, battery: 127, deck: 76 - 44, CT: 203
Armament	2 x 2 - 305/38, 6 x 1 - 152/44 Canet, 2 x 1 - 64/17 Baranovski, 12 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 12 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 6 - 381 TT (1 bow, 4 beam, 1 stern)
Complement	582

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Project history

A small battleship for her armament, with a moderately high freeboard, the 305mm axis height being 7.0m. The 305mm turrets were of the French centre-pivot type with the 152mm guns in a main deck battery.

Ship protection

The lower belt was 406-305mm with 102mm lower edge and 229mm bulkheads, and the upper belt 127mm. The armour deck was 44mm over the lower belt and 76mm at the ends, where there was no side armour.

Modernizations

1904: + 4 x 1 - 120/43 Canet, 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 4 x 1 - 7.6/94

Naval service

There was a serious accident in the Sisoy Velikiy in 1897 when a 305mm gun was fired before the breech was properly closed. 27.5.1905 in the Tsushima battle Sisoy Velikiy was torpedoed by Japanese torpedo boat, was heavily damaged and foundered at morning 28.5.1905 in 3nm NE of Cape Karasaki.