2. Sahaydachniy-Class battleship
Laid down: 1910. Launched: 1912. Commissioned: 1914.
Hetman Sahaydachniy - Petro Konashevych-Sahaydachniy ((1582 – 1622) - Ukrainian political and civic leader, Hetman of Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossacks from 1616–1622, a brilliant military leader both on land and sea. While being a Cossack Hetman, he transformed the Cossack Host from the erratic military formation into regular army. Under his leadership the cossacks, the Orthodox clergy and peasants had been begun to emerge as the united nation.)
In 1922-1924, the battleship was converted to a training ship.
Hetman Doroshenko - Petro Dorofeyevych Doroshenko ((1627–1698) was a Cossack political and military leader, Hetman of Right-bank Ukraine (1665–1672). His great-granddaughter is Natalia Pushkina (Goncharova). Natalia would marry the poet Alexander Pushkin, and have a daughter named also Natalia, who was named the Countess of Merenberg following her marriage to her husband, a Nassau prince. Their descendants subsequently married into, amongst others, the Romanov dynasty and the Westminster and Milford-Haven noble families of Great Britain.)
The battleship was sunk at anchor by a magazine explosion in late 1916, killing 338 crewmen. Was subsequently raised, but his condition was very poor, and he was finally scrapped in 1923.
Displacement: 26 720 / 29 090 t.
Dimensions: 179,6 м x 29,5 м x 8,7 m.
Machinery:
4 steam turbine Parsons, 24 universal fired boilers, 4 shafts, 50 000 shp = 22 kts.
Range: 5000 m at 14 kts. Bunker 3600 t coal + 800 t oil.
Armour:
Belts: main 280, ends 125 mm, upper 125 mm. Torpedo bulkheadheads: 38 mm.
Traverse: forward 203 mm, aft 203 mm.
Armoured decks: 25,4 + 51 + 12,7 mm, bevels 51 mm.
Main gun armour: face 280 mm, others gunhouse 125-280 mm, barbette 254 mm.
2nd gun armour: casemates 125 mm.
Conning towers: forward 305/152 mm, aft 203/106 mm.
Armament:
4x3 305/52 mm (100), 14x1 152/50 mm (220), 10х1 75/50 mm, 4х1 47/43 mm. Torpedoes: 4 533 mm submerged side tubes (16 torpedoes).
Wireless: 15 kW (1 200 miles) and the auxiliary station 2 kW (200 miles).
Complement: 30 / 50 / 1050 = 1130.
Hetman Sahaydachniy 1918
Armament:
4x3 305/52 mm (100), 14x1 152/50 mm (220), 6х1 76/55 mm, 6х1 37/30 mm.
Hetman Sahaydachniy 1928
Armament:
1x3 305/52 mm (100), 6x1 152/50 mm (220), 7х1 76/55 mm, 6х1 37/30 mm. 1 catapult, 2 seaplanes.
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