The Petropavlovsk class was a group of three pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the 1890s. They were transferred to the Pacific Squadron shortly after their completion and were based at Port Arthur before the start of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. All three ships participated in the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war and were sunk or scuttled during the final stages of the Siege of PortArthur. One of the ships, Poltava, was salvaged by the Japanese and incorporated into the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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The Petropavlovsk class was a group of three pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the 1890s. They were transferred to the Pacific Squadron shortly after their completion in 1899–1900 and were based at Port Arthur before the start of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. All three ships participated in the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war and were sunk or scuttled during the final stages of the Siege of PortArthur. One of the ships, Poltava, was salvaged by the Japanese and incorporated into the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was sold back to the Russians in 1916 and renamed Chesma as her original name was in use by another battleship. Chesma was seized by the British in early 1918 when they intervened in the Russian Civil War, abandoned by them when they withdrew and scrapped by the Soviets in 1924. The design began as an enlarged and improved version of the battleship Imperator Nikolai I, but with her main armament of four 12-inch guns mounted in lighter barbettes rather than the heavy gun turrets of the older ship. It was approved in January 1891 by the NTC with a displacement of 10,960 long tons and a full-length waterline armor belt. The ships were designed as first-class battleships to meet his requirement for a heavily armored ship that displaced 10,500 long tons and had a speed of 17 knots, a maximum draught of 26 feet and a range of 3,750 nautical miles with good seakeeping qualities.
Their crew consisted of 605–625 enlisted men; Petropovlovsk had a crew of 750 serving as a flagship when serving as the Russian Arctic Flotilla. The ship was the first flush-decked battleships build for the navy. The hull was divided by 10 watertight bulkheads; a center part of the main and the hullverse bulkhead between the upper and the upper decks in curvedwards in curved. The Petropivlovs had a metropricric height of 5.5 feet and height of 43 feet and were good seagoing ships. They had a maximum speed of 16 knots using forced draft, but model testing of the hull showed that it could only reach 16 knots. They were 400–900 long tons overweight and actually displaced 11,354–11,8 long tons. The hull had a partial double transverse double bottom, and the center of the bulkhead was divided into the hull and the machinery spaces; a. center part of the hull divided between the hullhead and the upper deck in curved inwards. The battleship had a working pressure of 8.5 atmospheres at a working temperature of 8,000 °F (4,500 °C) and a. working pressure at 8,500°F at a working pressure of 8,indrical pressure of 8,400 °S.
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