Slavnyy class Battleship

Slavnyy class Battleship
Class overview
Name	Slavnyy class Battleship
Operators	Far Eastern Imperial Navy
Class before	Imperiya class Battleship
Planned	2
Built	2
Active	1
General Characteristics
Type	Battleship
Displacement	13,900 tons standard 15,300 tons full load
Length	129.69 metres (425.5 ft)
Beam	22.5 metres (74 ft)
Draught	8.8 metres (29 ft)
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 VTE steam engines
Power	20 Belleville boilers 18,300 ihp (13,600 kW)
Speed	18 kts
Range	5500 nm at 10 kts
Complement	780
Armament	2 × 2 305mm/45 KO 1898 g gun 8 x 203mm/45 KO 1902 g gun 20 x 76.2mm/40 KO 1900 g gun 8 37mm/40 KO 1893 g gun 3 457mm torpedo tubes
Armour	Belt: 250 mm Deck: 40-50 mm turrets: 305mm conning tower: 254 mm

Development

Slavnyy was first completely new battleship design in Far Eastern Empire after the Imperator Petr Silnyy class. It shared normal hullform instead the typical tumblehome-hull as in previous Far eastern battleships and had unusual arragment of machinery with engine compartment between the boiler-rooms. Its most significant difference was in the armament however with 8 203mm guns replacing the 152mm guns in the earlier battleships.

Development of the class begun in in 1900 and it was initially repeat the armament fit of the earlier designs but rumours from other side of the Pacific ocean reached into Far Eastern Empire that the next US battleships were to be armed with 203mm seccondaries. The design was modified with the new secondary calibre. Two units were laid down in 1903 but they were still incomplete when the war against Japan broke out. Despite hasten construction, they were not completed before the war ended.

Ships in class

Name	Builder	Laid down	Launch Date	Entered Service	Fate
Slavnyy	Voenno-Morskoy verf, Dalny	May 1903	April 1905	February 1906	Extant in 1920
Smelyy	Voenno-Morskoy verf, Dalny	June 1903	May 1905	March 1906	Extant in 1920

See Also

Ships of Far Eastern Imperial Navy 1920