Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr II

Imperator Aleksandr II as depicted by an 1893 lithograph
History
Russian Empire
Name	Imperator Aleksandr II
Namesake	Alexander II
Builder	New Admiralty Yard, Saint Petersburg
Laid down	12 July 1885
Launched	13 July 1887
Commissioned	June 1891
Out of service	21 May 1921
Renamed	Zarya Svobody about 9 May 1917
Fate	Sold for scrapping 22 August 1922
General characteristics
Class and type	Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleship
Displacement	9,244 long tons (9,392 t)
Length	346 ft 6 in (105.61 m)
Beam	66 ft 11 in (20.40 m)
Draught	25 ft 9 in (7.85 m)
Installed power	8,289 ihp (6,181 kW)
Propulsion	2 shaft vertical compound steam engines, 12 cylindrical boilers
Speed	15.27 knots (28.28 km/h; 17.57 mph)
Range	4,400 nautical miles (8,100 km) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement	616
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	Compound armour Belt: 4–14 in (102–356 mm) Deck: 2.5 in (64 mm) Barbette: 10 in (254 mm) Barbette hood: 3 in (76 mm) Conning tower: 8 in (203 mm) Bulkheads: 6 in (152 mm)

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.