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Slava 1909

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Император Александр III [Imperator Alexandr III]			Baltic Works, St. Petersburg	24.5.1900	3.8.1901	1903	sunk 27.5.1905
Бородино [Borodino]			New Admiralty, St. Petersburg	24.5.1900	9.9.1901	8/1904	sunk 27.5.1905
Орёл [Oriol]			Galerny Is, St. Petersburg	2.6.1900	19.7.1902	8/1904	captured by Japan 28.5.1905 (石見 [Iwami])
Князь Суворов [Knyaz' Suvorov]			Baltic Works, St. Petersburg	8.9.1901	25.9.1902	1904	sunk 27.5.1905
Слава [Slava]			Baltic Works, St. Petersburg	1.11.1902	29.8.1903	10/1905	sunk 17.10.1917

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	15275 Slava: 14415
Displacement full, t
Length, m	121.0
Breadth, m	23.2
Draught, m	7.97 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 20 Belleville boilers
Power, h. p.	16300
Max speed, kts	17.5 - 17.8
Fuel, t	coal 1520
Endurance, nm(kts)	3200(10)
Armour, mm	belt: 194 - 152, belt ends: 146 - 102, turrets: 254 - 102, secondary turrets: 152, battery: 76, deck: 63 - 32, CT: 203
Armament	2 x 2 - 305/38, 6 x 2 - 152/44 Canet, 20 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 2 x 1 - 63/17 Baranovski, 20 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 8 x 1 - 7.6/94, 4 - 381 TT (1 bow, 2 beam, 1 stern) Slava: 2 x 2 - 305/38, 6 x 2 - 152/44 Canet, 20 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 8 x 1 - 7.6/94, 4 - 381 TT (1 bow, 2 beam, 1 stern)
Complement	835

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Project history

This ill-fated class generally resembled the Tsesarevich, with the armouring altered, but not for the better.

Ship protection

The belt was thinned and was also a foot narrower, while the 76mm side armour between the main and upper decks, covering the 75mm battery, was of little value. The upper deck was 63-38mm over this battery, while the main deck was 51mm, the lower deck 38-25mm and the torpedo bulkhead 32mm. The latter was no longer formed by a continuation of the lower deck slope, but was joined to it by a narrow flat.

Modernizations

1914, Slava: - 8 x 1 - 75/48

1917, Slava: + 6 x 1 - 75/48 Canet (AA)

Naval service

The first four ships were present at Tsushima 27.5.1905 where the Borodino blew up from a magazine explosion caused by shell hits, the Imperator Alexandr III was sunk probably as a result of flooding from a very large shell hole near the wl forward 27.5.1905, and the Knyaz' Suvorov, badly battered by shells, sank from hits by one 450mm and two to four 350mm torpedoes 27.5.1905. The Oriol escaped large shell holes near the wl but, considerably damaged elsewhere, surrendered to the Japanese next day. She was partially reconstructed and served as the Iwami. In the First World War the Slava was frequently employed in the Gulf of Riga, and was badly damaged by the dreadnought König off Moon Sound on 17.10.1917 and, too deep in the water to escape, was blown up by own crew and additionally torpedoed by destroyer Turkmenets-Stavropolskiy.