Knyaz Suvorov, 1904
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Name | Knyaz Suvorov (Князь Суворов) |
Namesake | Prince Alexander Suvorov |
Builder | Baltic Works, Saint Petersburg |
Cost | 13,841,000 rubles |
Laid down | 8 September 1901[Note 1] |
Launched | 25 September 1902 |
In service | September 1904 |
Fate | Sunk at the Battle of Tsushima, 27 May 1905 |
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Class and type | Borodino-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
Displacement | 14,415 long tons (14,646 t) |
Length | 397 ft (121.0 m) (o/a) |
Beam | 76 ft 1 in (23.2 m) |
Draft | 29 ft 2 in (8.9 m) |
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Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines |
Speed | 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph) |
Range | 2,590 nmi (4,800 km; 2,980 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 782 (designed) |
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Knyaz Suvorov (Russian: Князь Суворов) was one of five Borodino-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. Completed after the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, she became the flagship of Vice admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, commander of the Second Pacific Squadron. The squadron was sent to the Far East a few months after her completion to break the Japanese blockade of Port Arthur. The Japanese captured the port while the squadron was in transit and their destination was changed to Vladivostok. During the Battle of Tsushima on 27 May 1905, the ship fell out of the battle line after a shell hit her bridge, killing her helmsman and wounding her captain and Rozhestvensky. Knyaz Suvorov was eventually torpedoed and sunk by Japanese torpedo boats; other than 20 wounded officers evacuated by a destroyer, there were no survivors.
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