Russian battleship Oslyabya
Oslyabya was the second of the three Peresvet-class second-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy. The ship was part of the Second Pacific Squadron sent to the Far East during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05. She was sunk on 27 May 1905 at the Battle of Tsushima, and was the first all-steel battleship to be sunk by naval gunfire alone.
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Oslyabya was the second of the three Peresvet-class second-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century. The ship was part of the Second Pacific Squadron sent to the Far East during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, and served as the flagship of Rear Admiral Baron Dmitry von Fölkersam. She was sunk on 27 May 1905 at the Battle of Tsushima, and was the first all-steel battleship to be sunk by naval gunfire alone. Over half of the ship’s crew went down with the ship. The design of the Peresvet class was inspired by the British second-class battleships of the Centurion class. OslyabyA had a length of 434 feet 5 inches overall, a beam of 71 feet 6 inches and a draft of 26 feet 3 inches. Designed to displace 12,674 long tons, she was almost 2,000 long tons overweight and displaced 14,408 long tons when built.
Her 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. The Krupp cemented armor of her gun turrets had a maximum thickness of nine inches and her deck ranged from two to three inches thick. The waterline armor belt consisted of Harvey armor and was four to nine inches thick, but the ship was significantly overweight and only had three inches showing at normal load. She carried 45 mines to be used to protect her anchorage, and she was also armed with five 15-inch torpedo tubes, three above water and two submerged.
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