Russian battleship Pobeda
Pobeda was the last of the three Peresvet-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century. The ship was assigned to the Pacific Squadron upon completion and based at Port Arthur from 1903. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, she participated in the battles of Port Arthur and the Yellow Sea. She was sunk by gunfire during the Siege of PortArthur, and then salvaged by the Japanese and placed into service under the name Suwo.
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Pobeda was the last of the three Peresvet-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century. The ship was assigned to the Pacific Squadron upon completion and based at Port Arthur from 1903. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, she participated in the battles of Port Arthur and the Yellow Sea. She was sunk by gunfire during the Siege of PortArthur, and then salvaged by the Japanese and placed into service under the name Suwo. In 1908, Suwo was reclassified by the Imperial Japanese Navy as a coastal defense ship and served as a training ship for several years. In 1917, she became a gunnery training ship and was probably scrapped around that time. Pobeda’s main battery consisted of four 10-inch guns mounted in two twin-gun turrets, one forward and one aft of the superstructure. The secondary armament consisted of eleven Canet 6-inch quick-firing guns, mounted in casemates on the sides of the hull and in the bow, underneath the forecastle. Smaller guns were carried for defense against torpedo boats, including twenty 75-millimeter QF guns, twenty 47-millimeters Hotchkiss guns and eight 37- millimeter guns. She also had five 15-inch torpedo tubes, three above water and two submerged, and 45 mines to be used to protect her anchorage.
She carried a maximum of 2,060 long tons of coal, which allowed her to steam for 6,200 nautical miles at a speed of 10 knots. The ship’s waterline armor belt consisted of Krupp cemented armor and was 4–9 inches thick. The armor of her gun turrets had a maximum thickness of 9 inches and her deck ranged from 2 to 3 inches in thickness. The design was inspired by the British second-class battleships of the Centurion class. The British ships were intended to defeat commerce-raiding armored cruisers like the Russian ships Rossia and Rurik, and the Peresvet class was designed to support the armored cruiser. She reached a top speed of 18. 5 knots from 15,578 indicated horsepower during her sea trials in October 1901. She sailed to Reval on 1 August to participate in the naval review held there a few days later to commemorate the visit of the German Kaiser, Wilhelm II, to Russia. She had a cost of $050,000 rubles at the time of her completion in October 1902, although she was not officially accepted until 10 March 1903. After the Japanese victory in the First Sino-Japanese war of 1894–95, Japan had not yet decided exactly how to resolve its relations with Russia.
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