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Peresvet 1903

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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Пересвет [Peresvet]			Baltic Works, St. Petersburg	21.11.1895	19.5.1898	7/1901	scuttled 7.12.1904, to Japan (相模 [Sagami]), returned 6.4.1916, sunk 4.1.1917
Ослябя [Osliabia]			New Admiralty, St. Petersburg	11/1896	10/1898	8/1901	sunk 27.5.1905
Победа [Pobeda]			Baltic Works, St. Petersburg	21.2.1899	24.5.1900	10/1902	sunk 7.12.1904, to Japan (周防 [Suwo])

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	12683
Displacement full, t
Length, m	132.4
Breadth, m	21.8
Draught, m	Peresvet, Osliabia: 7.92 Pobeda: 8.00
No of shafts	3
Machinery	Peresvet, Osliabia: 3 VTE, 32 Belleville boilers Pobeda: 3 VTE, 30 Belleville boilers
Power, h. p.	15000
Max speed, kts	18 - 18.5
Fuel, t	coal 2100
Endurance, nm(kts)	6200(10)
Armour, mm	Peresvet, Osliabia: KC and Harvey; belt: 229 - 127, turrets: 229 - 127, casemates: 127, deck: 76 - 51, CT: 152 Pobeda: belt: 229 - 127, turrets: 254 - 127, casemates: 127, deck: 76 - 51, CT: 210
Armament	2 x 2 - 254/43, 11 x 1 - 152/44 Canet, 20 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 2 x 1 - 64/17 Baranovski, 20 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 8 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 5 - 381 TT (1 bow, 4 beam)
Complement	752

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Project history

Three-funnelled ships with a high forecastle deck extending to the mainmast and considerable tumblehome. A thoroughly unsatisfactory design, both armament and protection being poor and speed not exceptional. The 254mm guns were in French-type turrets and of the 152mm 6 were in upper deck and 4 in main deck casemates, with 1 unprotected in the bows. Most of the 75mm were in unarmoured upper and main deck batteries.

Ship protection

The main belt was 95m long and 2.4m wide, 229-1278mm thick with 127mm lower edge, and the 127mm upper belt, reaching the main deck, was only 57m long. Both belts ended in 102mm bulkheads, and there were similar bulkheads between the end casemates. The armour deck was 63-51mm amidships and 76mm at the ends, and in Pobeda alloy steel was used.

Modernizations

1916, Peresvet after Japanese service was armed with 2 x 2 - 254/43, 10 x 1 - 152/40 41-shiki, 16 x 1 - 76/40 41-shiki, 4 x 1 - 6.5/115, 2 - 381 TT (beam)

Naval service

Osliabia was sunk 27.5.1905 by gunfire at Tsushima, mainly from the effect of shells near the wl forward. The other two were at Port Arthur in February 1904. Peresvet was seriously damaged by gunfire at the Yellow Sea battle, and in the siege of Port Arthur was scuttled on 7.12.1904 after a total of at least 23 280mm howitzer shells had hit her. She was raised and repaired by the Japanese and served as the Sagami. Sold back to Russia in 1916, she ran aground off Vladivostok 26.5.1916 and remained so until July. She was finally sunk 4.1.1917 by a mine laid by German submarine U73 about 10 miles from Port Said. Pobeda struck a mine 13.4.1904 which exploded under a main coal bunker, and was repaired by mid June. She was not so badly damaged at the Yellow Sea as Peresvet but sank at Port Arthur on 7.12.1904 from the effects of 21 280mm shells. Raised and repaired by the Japanese, she served as the Suwo until scrapped.