Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleship

Imperator Aleksandr II
Class overview
NameImperator Aleksandr II-class battleship
Operators
Preceded byEkaterina II class
Succeeded byDvenadsat Apostolov
SubclassesImperator Nikolai I
Built1885–1891
In commission1891–1921
Completed2
Lost1
Scrapped1
General characteristics Imperator Aleksandr II
TypePredreadnought battleship
Displacement9,244 long tons (9,392 t)
Length346 ft 6 in (105.61 m)
Beam66 ft 11 in (20.40 m)
Draft25 ft 9 in (7.85 m)
Installed power
Propulsion2 shafts; 2 compound steam engines
Speed15.27 knots (28.28 km/h; 17.57 mph)
Range4,440 nmi (8,220 km; 5,110 mi) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement616
Armament
  • 1 × twin 12 in (305 mm) guns
  • 4 × single 9 in (229 mm) guns
  • 8 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns
  • 10 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) Hotchkiss revolving cannon
  • 10 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) Hotchkiss revolving cannon
  • 5 × single 15 in (381 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor

The Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleships were a pair of predreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1880s. They were intended to counter the small armored ships of the other Baltic powers. Construction was very prolonged and the ships were virtually obsolescent when completed. They were optimized for ramming.

Imperator Aleksandr II served in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas before becoming a gunnery training ship in 1904, but she was inactive during World War I before joining the Bolsheviks in 1917. She was sold for scrap in 1922. Imperator Nikolai I served in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas as well as the Pacific Ocean during the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War. She surrendered after the Battle of Tsushima in 1905 and was commissioned in the Imperial Japanese Navy before she was sunk as a target in 1915.