Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr II

Imperator Aleksandr II as depicted by an 1893 lithograph
History
Russian Empire
NameImperator Aleksandr II
NamesakeAlexander II
BuilderNew Admiralty Yard, Saint Petersburg
Laid down12 July 1885
Launched13 July 1887
CommissionedJune 1891
Out of service21 May 1921
RenamedZarya Svobody about 9 May 1917
FateSold for scrapping 22 August 1922
General characteristics
Class and typeImperator Aleksandr II-class battleship
Displacement9,244 long tons (9,392 t)
Length346 ft 6 in (105.61 m)
Beam66 ft 11 in (20.40 m)
Draught25 ft 9 in (7.85 m)
Installed power8,289 ihp (6,181 kW)
Propulsion2 shaft vertical compound steam engines, 12 cylindrical boilers
Speed15.27 knots (28.28 km/h; 17.57 mph)
Range4,400 nautical miles (8,100 km) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement616
Armament
  • 1 × 2 – 12-inch (305 mm) guns
  • 4 × 1 – 9-inch (229 mm) guns
  • 8 × 1 – 6-inch (152 mm) guns
  • 10 × 1 – 47-millimetre (1.9 in) Hotchkiss revolving cannon
  • 10 × 1 – 37-millimetre (1.5 in) Hotchkiss revolving cannon
  • 5 × 1 – 15-inch (381 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour

Imperator Aleksandr II (Russian: Император Александр II) was a Russian Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1880s. She was an artillery training ship assigned to the Baltic Fleet by the time of the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 and was not sent to the Pacific as was most of the rest of the Baltic Fleet. She was inactive at Kronstadt during World War I, but her crew was active in the revolutionary movement. She was turned over to the Kronstadt port authority on 21 April 1921 before she was sold for scrap on 22 August 1922. She was towed to Germany during the autumn of 1922, but was not stricken from the Navy List until 21 November 1925.