&sq=&lang=&file=File:Poltava-SwedishPostcard.jpg) Swedish postcard of Poltava
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| History | |
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 Russian Empire | |
| Name | Poltava |
| Namesake | Battle of Poltava |
| Builder | New Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Laid down | 19 May 1892[Note 1] |
| Launched | 6 November 1894 |
| In service | 1899 |
| Captured | January 1905 by the Japanese after the siege of Port Arthur |
 Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Tango |
| Namesake | Tango Province |
| Acquired | January 1905 |
| Commissioned | 22 August 1905 |
| Fate | Sold to Russia, 3 or 4 April 1916 |
| Russian Empire | |
| Name | Chesma |
| Namesake | Battle of Chesma |
| Acquired | Bought, 4 April 1916 |
| Renamed | Chesma in 1916 |
| Fate | Taken over by the Bolsheviks, October 1917 |
 Soviet Union | |
| Name | Chesma |
| Acquired | October 1917 |
| Stricken | 3 July 1924 |
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| Fate | Scrapped, 1924 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Petropavlovsk-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement | 11,500 long tons (11,685 t) |
| Length | 376 ft (114.6 m) |
| Beam | 70 ft (21.3 m) |
| Draft | 28 ft 3 in (8.6 m) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Range | 3,750 nmi (6,940 km; 4,320 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 631–652 |
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The Russian battleship Poltava (Russian: Полтава) was one of three Petropavlovsk-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1890s. The ship was transferred to the Pacific Squadron shortly after completion and based at Port Arthur from 1901. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, she participated in the Battle of Port Arthur and was heavily damaged during the Battle of the Yellow Sea. She was sunk by Japanese artillery during the subsequent siege of Port Arthur in December 1904, but was raised by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) after the war and renamed Tango (丹後).
During World War I, she bombarded German fortifications during the siege of Qingdao. The Japanese government sold Tango back to the Russians at their request in 1916. She was renamed Chesma (Чесма) as her former name had been given to a new ship. En route to the White Sea, she joined an Allied force that persuaded the Greek government to disarm their ships. Her crew declared for the Bolsheviks in October 1917, but made no effort to resist when the British captured her during the North Russia intervention in early 1918. In poor condition, the ship was used as a prison hulk. Abandoned by the British when they withdrew in 1919 and recaptured by the Bolsheviks, she was scrapped in 1924.
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