![]() Oblique view of Oryol preparing to go to sea at Kronstadt, August 1904
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Name | Оryol (Russian: Орёл) |
Namesake | Eagle |
Ordered | 7 November 1899[Note 1] |
Builder | Galerniy Island Shipyards, Saint Petersburg |
Laid down | 1 June 1900 |
Launched | 19 July 1902 |
Completed | October 1904 |
Stricken | 13 September 1905 |
Fate | Captured by the Imperial Japanese Navy, 28 May 1905 |
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Name | Iwami (Japanese: 石見) |
Namesake | Iwami Province |
Acquired | 28 May 1905 |
In service | June 1907 |
Out of service | April 1922 |
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Stricken | 1 September 1922 |
Fate | Sunk as target, 10 July 1924 |
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Class and type | Borodino-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
Displacement | 14,151 long tons (14,378 t) |
Length | 397 ft (121 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 | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
Range | 2,590 nmi (4,800 km; 2,980 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 28 officers, 826 enlisted men |
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Oryol (Russian: Орёл, "Eagle"; also Orel, Orël) was a Borodino-class battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. The ship was completed after the start of the Russo-Japanese War in February 1904 and was assigned to the Second Pacific Squadron sent to the Far East six months later 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. Oryol was badly damaged during the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905 and surrendered to the Japanese, who put her into service under the name of Iwami (Japanese: 石見).
Reconstructed by the Japanese in 1905–1907, Iwami was reclassified by the Imperial Japanese Navy as a coastal defense ship in 1912. She participated in the Battle of Tsingtao at the beginning of World War I and supported the Japanese troops that landed in Siberia in 1918 during the Russian Civil War. Iwami was used as a training ship beginning in September 1921. The ship was disarmed in 1922 to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty and sunk as a target ship two years later.
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