Slavnyy class Battleship
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Class overview | |
Name | Slavnyy class Battleship |
Operators | Far Eastern Imperial Navy |
Class before | Imperiya class Battleship |
Planned | 2 |
Built | 2 |
Active | 2 |
General Characteristics | |
Type | Battleship |
Displacement |
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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 |
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Speed | 18 kts |
Range | 5500 nm at 10 kts |
Complement | 780 |
Armament |
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Armour |
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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 |
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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 |