Russian battleship Rostislav
Rostislav was a pre-dreadnought battleship built in the 1890s for the Black Sea Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy. She was conceived as a small, inexpensive coastal defence ship, but the Navy abandoned the concept in favor of a compact, seagoing battleship with a displacement of 8,880 long tons. Her combat ability was compromised by the use of 10-inch main guns instead of the de facto Russian standard of 12 inches. In May 1899 Rostislav became the first ship of the. Imperial Navy to be commanded by a member of the House of Romanov, Captain Alexander Mikhailovich.
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Rostislav was a pre-dreadnought battleship built in the 1890s for the Black Sea Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy. She was conceived as a small, inexpensive coastal defence ship, but the Navy abandoned the concept in favor of a compact, seagoing battleship with a displacement of 8,880 long tons. She became the world’s first capital ship to burn fuel oil, rather than coal. Her combat ability was compromised by the use of 10-inch main guns instead of the de facto Russian standard of 12 inches. In May 1899 Rostislav became the first ship of the. Imperial Navy to be commanded by a member of the House of Romanov, Captain Alexander Mikhailovich. From 1903 to 1912 the ship was the flagship of the second-in-command of the Black. Sea Fleet. In April 1918 the fleeing Bolsheviks abandoned Rostislv in Sevastopol. A year later the British occupation forces disabled her engines. The White forces used the ship as a towed floating battery, then scuttled her in the Kerch Strait in November 1920. She had two triple-expansion steam engines, identical to those of Sissoi Veliky, which drove eight cylindrical boilers. RostislAV was the first Russian battleship to use electric power instead of hydraulic systems to train her guns. Her hull was launched in September 1896, but non-delivery of the ship’s main guns delayed her maiden voyage until 1899 and her completion until 1900. Her crew was on the verge of mutiny, but ultimately remained loyal to the regime, and actively suppressed the mutiny of the cruiser Ochakov.
The first Russian ship to fire on enemy targets on land during World War I, the first to be hit by a German airstrike, and the first. to destroy a submarine, albeit a Russian one. The Navy brass spent April and May 1893 in lengthy debates. They agreed to increase displacement to 8,800 long tons and were leaning toward accepting 12-inch guns when General Admiral Grand Duke Alexey resolved the discussion in favour of the smaller caliber. The NTC discarded Ratnik’s advice to build an improved copy of the battleship Sis soi Velikas of 8,.880 longtons, but did not present a definite alternative. The N TC strongly advised against it. The admiral himself and the active fleet commanders voted for the 12- inch caliber, which had already become a worldwide battleship standard. The ship had the same hull as SisSoi Veliki, protected with the newly developed Harvey armor, and was 345 feet 6inches 6inches waterline and 351 feet overall at the waterline. It had a beam of 68 feet and a draft of 25 feet 2 feet 2 inches. She displaced 10,520 long tons, over 1,500 tons more than her designed displacement of 6,000 long tons. This gain increased her draft by about 3 feet, submerging her submerging submerging all, if not all, of her waterline armored belt.
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