Peresvet was the lead ship of the three Peresvet-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century. She was scuttled before the Russians surrendered, then salvaged by the Japanese and placed into service with the name Sagami. In 1916, the Japanese sold her to the Russians, their allies since the beginning of World War I. En route to the White Sea in early 1917, she sank off Port Said, Egypt, after striking mines laid by a German submarine.
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Peresvet was the lead ship of the three Peresvet-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century. She was scuttled before the Russians surrendered, then salvaged by the Japanese and placed into service with the name Sagami. In 1916, the Japanese sold her to the Russians, their allies since the beginning of World War I. En route to the White Sea in early 1917, she sank off Port Said, Egypt, after striking mines laid by a German submarine. The ship’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. Several smaller guns were carried for defense against torpedo boats. She also carried 45 mines to be used to protect her anchorage. The design was inspired by the British second-class battleships of the Centurion class. The ships were intended to defeat commerce-raiding armored cruisers like the Russian ships Rossia and Rurik, and the Peresvets were designed to support their armored cruiser counterparts. The Krupp cemented armor of her gun turrets had a maximum thickness of nine inches and her deck ranged from 2 to 3 inches in thickness.
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. She reached a top speed of 18. 44 knots from 14,532 indicated horsepower during her sea trials in November 1899. She ran aground on the tip of Langeland Island while passing through the Danish Great Belt on 1 November, but was apparently not seriously damaged. Upon arrival she was assigned to the Pacific Squadron and became the flagship of the second-command, Rear Admiral Pavel Ukhtomsky. After the First World War of 1894–95, she became the Sino-Japanese squadron squadron squadron flagship. The final straws were the news of Russian failure to withdraw its troops from Manchuria in October 1903 and Japan’s refusal to acknowledge Russian timber concessions in northern Korea. This led the Japanese to complete the armament programs in place on Japanese interests in Manchur while continuing to continue activities on Korean soil. In October 1903, the Russian government was slow and uncertain in its replies because it had not yet decided exactly how to resolve the problems. Japan had promised to ease the situation in ManChuria while continuing activities in Korea.
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