The Russian battleship Poltava was one of three Petropavlovsk-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1890s. The ship was transferred to the Pacific Squadron shortly after completion and based at Port Arthur from 1901. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, she participated in the Battle of Port Arthur and was heavily damaged during theBattle of the Yellow Sea. She was sunk by Japanese artillery during the subsequent Siege of PortArthur in December 1904, but was raised by the Imperial Japanese Navy after the war and renamed Tango.
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The Russian battleship Poltava was one of three Petropavlovsk-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1890s. The ship was transferred to the Pacific Squadron shortly after completion and based at Port Arthur from 1901. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, she participated in the Battle of Port Arthur and was heavily damaged during theBattle of the Yellow Sea. She was sunk by Japanese artillery during the subsequent Siege of PortArthur in December 1904, but was raised by the Imperial Japanese Navy after the war and renamed Tango. During World War I, she bombarded German fortifications during the Siege of Tsingtao. The Japanese government sold Tango back to the Russians at their request in 1916. In poor condition, the ship was used as a prison hulk. Abandoned by the British when they withdrew in 1919 and recaptured by the Bolsheviks, she was scrapped in 1924. Her sister ship Sevastopol had a radio installed in September 1900, the first ships in the Russian Navy to get such equipment. She had six torpedo tubes, four 15-inch tubes above water and two 18-inch submerged tubes, all mounted on the broadside. The ships were 376 feet long overall, with a beam of 70 feet and a draft of 28 feet 3 inches. The Krupp armor of her main gun turrets had a maximum thickness of 10 inches and the nickel-steel armor of the protective decks ranged from 2 to 3 inches in thickness.
The main armament consisted of four 12-inch guns mounted in two twin-gun turrets, one forward and one aft of the superstructure. They were also armed with a dozen QF 47-millimeter Hotchkiss guns and twenty-eight Maxim QF 37-millimeters guns. They carried 50 mines to be used to protect her anchorage. She carried enough coal to give her a range of 3,750 nautical miles at a speed of 10 knots. Her crew consisted of 26–27 officers and 605–625 enlisted men. The engines were rated at 10,600 indicated horsepower and designed to reach a top speed of 16 knots, butPoltava reached a speed of 16. 29 knots from 11,213 indicated horsepower during her sea trials. Her waterline armor belt was 12–14. 5 inches thick. She was under construction for 19 years, but she was underayed by Delayed Delivery in 1892, together with her two sister ships, at the New Admiralty Shipyard and launched on 6 November 1894. Her trials lasted from 1898 to 1899 and she was then briefly assigned to the Baltic Fleet. On 15 October 1900, Poltva arrived at the Suez Canal to unload much of their ammunition and other stores to reduce their drafts to reduce enough to pass through the Canal. She set sail for Port Arthur later that day.
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