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DVENADTSAT` APOSTOLOV barbette ship (1892)


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Dvenadtsat' Apostolov 1905

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Двенадцать Апостолов [Dvenadtsat' Apostolov]     Nikolayev Admiralty 7.3.1888 13.9.1890 10.5.1892 hulk 9.1914


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

8709

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

104.2

Breadth, m

18.3

Draught, m

8.38 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 8 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

8750

Max speed, kts

15.7

Fuel, t

coal 800

Endurance, nm(kts)

1540(10)

Armour, mm

compound; belt: 356 - 152, barbettes: 305 - 254, battery: 127 (steel), deck: 63 - 51, CT: 203 (steel)

Armament

2 x 2 - 305/27 obr. 1877, 4 x 1 - 152/32 obr. 1877, 12 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 10 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 4 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 6 - 381 TT (1 bow, 4 beam, 1 stern)

Complement

599



Standard scale images


<i>Dvenadtsat' Apostolov </i>1894
Dvenadtsat' Apostolov 1894


Graphics


<i>Dvenadtsat' Apostolov </i>1905
Dvenadtsat' Apostolov 1905


Project history

Black Sea Fleet. She was a considerably better fighting ship than the Imperator Alexandr II.

Ship protection

The 305mm guns were in barbettes with 76mm cupola shields, and the 152mm in a main deck battery. The lower strake of the bell was 67m long, and the upper strake 65m. It was 356-305mm with 178-152mm lower edge, and ended in 305-229mm bulkheads. The armour deck was 51mm over the belt and 63mm at the ends

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Dvenadtsat' Apostolov was disarmed 3.4.1911 and laid up to reserve. 4.9.1914 she was converted to torpedo depot hulk and sold to BU only in January 1931.