 Peresvet at anchor, 1901
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| History | |
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 Russian Empire | |
| Name | Peresvet |
| Namesake | Alexander Peresvet |
| Builder | Baltic Yard, Saint Petersburg |
| Cost | 10,540,000 rubles |
| Laid down | 21 November 1895[Note 1] |
| Launched | 19 May 1898 |
| In service | August 1901 |
| Captured | January 1905 by the Japanese after the siege of Port Arthur |
| Fate | Scuttled, 7 December 1904 |
 Japan | |
| Name | Sagami |
| Namesake | Sagami Province |
| Acquired | Refloated, 29 June 1905 |
| In service | 20 July 1908 |
| Reclassified | As 1st-class coast defense ship |
| Fate | Sold to Russia, March 1916 |
| Russian Empire | |
| Acquired | Bought, March 1916 |
| Renamed | Peresvet |
| Reclassified | As armored cruiser, 5 April 1916 |
| Fate | Sunk by mine off Port Said, Egypt, 4 January 1917 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Peresvet-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement | 13,810 long tons (14,032 t) |
| Length | 434 ft 5 in (132.4 m) |
| Beam | 71 ft 6 in (21.8 m) |
| Draft | 26 ft 3 in (8.0 m) |
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| Propulsion | 3 shafts, 3 triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Range | 6,200 nmi (11,500 km; 7,100 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 27 officers, 744 men |
| Armament | As built:
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Peresvet (Russian: Пересвет) was the lead ship of the three Peresvet-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century. The ship was transferred to the Pacific Squadron upon completion and based at Port Arthur from 1903. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, she participated in the Battle of Port Arthur and was seriously damaged during the Battle of the Yellow Sea and again in the siege of Port Arthur. The ship was scuttled before the Russians surrendered, then salvaged by the Japanese and placed into service with the name Sagami (相模).
Partially rearmed, Sagami was reclassified by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as a coastal defense ship in 1912. In 1916, the Japanese sold her to the Russians, their allies since the beginning of World War I. En route to the White Sea in early 1917, she sank off Port Said, Egypt, after striking mines laid by a German submarine.
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