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Admiral Nakhimov with full rig

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Адмирал Нахимов [Admiral Nakhimov]			Carr & McFerson, St. Petersburg	19.12.1883	2.11.1885	21.9.1888	scuttled 28.5.1905

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	7762
Displacement full, t	8524
Length, m	97.8 pp 101.5 wl 103.3 oa
Breadth, m	18.6
Draught, m	8.40 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VC, 12 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	8000
Max speed, kts	17
Fuel, t	coal 1200
Endurance, nm(kts)	4400(10)
Armour, mm	compound; belt: 254, bulkhedas: 229, barbettes: 203 - 178, ammunition hoists: 76, shields: 63 - 51, deck: 76 - 51, CT: 152 - 51
Armament	4 x 2 - 203/33, 10 x 1 - 152/32 obr. 1877, 4 x 1 - 87/21 4pdr obr. 1877, 6 x 5 - 47/22 Hotchkiss, 4 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 3 - 381 TT (aw, 2 beam, 1 stern), 40 mines
Complement	570

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Project history

The Admiral Nakhimov was in many ways a close copy of the Imperieuse and Warspite, of which the Russians had managed to obtain drawings, though they contrived, by alteration of bunkers and hatches, to impair the protection of the machinery. She was sheathed and coppered and originally rigged as a brig.

Ship protection

The 254mm belt was 45m long with a 152mm lower edge and extended from about 0.9m above to 1.5m below lwl, ending in 254-152mm bulkheads. The barbettes were 203mm (wing 203 - 178mm) to the main deck with 76mm ammunition tubes below, and 63-51mm shields, but the 152mm guns on the main deck were unprotected. The armour deck was 51mm over the belt and 76mm at the level of the belt lower edge fore and aft. CT had 152mm sides and 51mm roof.

Modernizations

1899: reboilered; - 4 x 1 - 87/21, 6 x 5 - 47/22, 4 x 5 - 37/17; + 2 x 1 - 63/17 Baranovski, 12 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 6 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss

Naval service

Admiral Nakhimov escaped serious shell damage at Tsushima but was torpedoed during the night and her crew opened the sea-valves on surrendering to the Japanese N of Tsusima Islands.