Russian battleship Navarin

Navarin underway at slow speed
Class overview
Operators Imperial Russian Navy
Preceded byDvenadsat Apostolov
Succeeded byTri Sviatitelia
Built1890–1896
In service1896–1905
Completed1
Lost1
History
Russian Empire
NameNavarin
NamesakeBattle of Navarino
Ordered24 April 1889[Note 1]
BuilderFranco-Russian Works, Saint Petersburg
Laid down31 May 1890
Launched20 October 1891
In serviceJune 1896
Nickname(s)Factory (Zavod)
FateSunk at the Battle of Tsushima, 28 May 1905
General characteristics
TypePre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement10,206 long tons (10,370 t)
Length351 ft (107 m) (o/a)
Beam67 ft (20.4 m)
Draft27 ft 7 in (8.4 m)
Installed power
Propulsion2 shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Range3,050 nmi (5,650 km; 3,510 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement24 officers, 417 crewmen
Armament
Armor

Navarin (Russian: Наварин) was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The ship was assigned to the Baltic Fleet and spent the early part of her career deployed in the Mediterranean and in the Far East. She participated in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 before returning to the Baltic Fleet in 1901. Several months after the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War in February 1904, she was assigned to the 2nd Pacific Squadron to relieve the Russian forces blockaded in Port Arthur. During the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905, she was sunk by Japanese destroyers which spread twenty-four linked mines across her path during the night. Navarin struck two of these mines and capsized with the loss of most of her crew.
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