Slavnyy class Battleship

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Slavnyy class Battleship
Class overview
Name Slavnyy class Battleship
Operators Far Eastern Imperial Navy
Class before Imperiya class Battleship
Planned 2
Built 2
Active 2
General Characteristics
Type Battleship
Displacement
  • 13,900 tons standard
  • 15,300 tons full load
Length 129.69 metres (425.5 ft)
Beam 22.5 metres (74 ft)
Draught 8.8 metres (29 ft)
Propulsion 2 shafts, 2 VTE steam engines
Power
  • 20 Belleville boilers
  • 18,300 ihp (13,600 kW)
Speed 18 kts
Range 5500 nm at 10 kts
Complement 780
Armament
  • 2 × 2 305mm/45 KO 1898 g gun
  • 8 x 203mm/45 KO 1902 g gun
  • 20 x 76.2mm/40 KO 1900 g gun
  • 8 37mm/40 KO 1893 g gun
  • 3 457mm torpedo tubes
Armour
  • Belt: 250 mm
  • Deck: 40-50 mm
  • turrets: 305mm
  • conning tower: 254 mm

  • Development

    Slavnyy was first completely new battleship design in Far Eastern Empire after the Imperator Petr Silnyy class. It shared normal hullform instead the typical tumblehome-hull as in previous Far eastern battleships and had unusual arragment of machinery with engine compartment between the boiler-rooms. Its most significant difference was in the armament however with 8 203mm guns replacing the 152mm guns in the earlier battleships.

    Development of the class begun in in 1900 and it was initially repeat the armament fit of the earlier designs but rumours from other side of the Pacific ocean reached into Far Eastern Empire that the next US battleships were to be armed with 203mm seccondaries. The design was modified with the new secondary calibre. Two units were laid down in 1903 but they were still incomplete when the war against Japan broke out. Despite hasten construction, they were not completed before the war ended.

    Ships in class

    Name Builder Laid down Launch Date Entered Service Fate
    Slavnyy Voenno-Morskoy verf, Dalny May 1903 April 1905 February 1906 Extant in 1920
    Smelyy Voenno-Morskoy verf, Dalny June 1903 May 1905 March 1906 Extant in 1920


    See Also

    Ships of Far Eastern Imperial Navy 1920