Russian battleship Ekaterina II

An 1893 lithograph of Ekaterina II
History
Russian Empire
NameEkaterina II
NamesakeCatherine the Great
BuilderNikolayev Admiralty Dockyard, Nikolaev
Laid down26 June 1883
Launched20 May 1886
Commissioned1889
RenamedStricken Vessel Nr. 3 22 April 1912
Stricken14 August 1907
FateSunk as a target 1912
General characteristics
Class and typeEkaterina II-class ironclad battleship
Displacement11,396 long tons (11,579 t)
Length339 ft 3 in (103.4 m)
Beam68 ft 11 in (21.0 m)
Draft28 ft 10 in (8.8 m)
Installed power9,101 ihp (6,787 kW) (on trials)
Propulsion
  • 2 shafts
  • 2 vertical compound steam engines
  • 14 cylindrical boilers
Speed15.25 knots (28.24 km/h; 17.55 mph) on trials
Range2,800 nmi (5,200 km; 3,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) or 1,367 nmi (2,532 km; 1,573 mi) at 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph)
Complement633
Armament
  • 3 × 2 – 12-inch (305 mm) guns
  • 7 × 1 – 6-inch (152 mm) guns
  • 8 × 1 – 47-millimeter (1.9 in) 5-barrel revolving Hotchkiss guns
  • 4 × 1 – 37-millimeter (1.5 in) 5-barrel revolving Hotchkiss guns
  • 7 × 1 – 14-inch (356 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor

Ekaterina II (Russian: Екатерина II Catherine II of Russia) was the lead ship of the Ekaterina II-class ironclad battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1880s. Her crew was considered unreliable when the crew of the pre-dreadnought battleship Potemkin mutinied in June 1905[a] and her engines were decoupled from the propellers to prevent them from joining Potemkin. She was turned over to the Sevastopol port authorities before being stricken on 14 August 1907. She was re-designated as Stricken Vessel Nr. 3 on 22 April 1912 before being sunk as a torpedo target for the Black Sea Fleet.
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