 Slava
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| History | |
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 Russian Empire | |
| Name | Slava |
| Operator | Imperial Russian Navy |
| Ordered | 30 January 1900[Note 1] |
| Builder | Baltic Shipyard, Saint Petersburg |
| Laid down | 1 November 1902 |
| Launched | 29 August 1903 |
| Commissioned | October 1905 |
| Stricken | 29 May 1918 |
| Fate | Scuttled near the island of Muhu, 17 October 1917 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Borodino-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 397 ft 3 in (121.1 m) |
| Beam | 76 ft 1 in (23.2 m) |
| Draft | 29 ft 2 in (8.9 m) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 vertical 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 | 846 |
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Slava (Russian: Слава "Glory") was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships. Completed too late to participate in the Battle of Tsushima during the Russo-Japanese War, she survived while all of her sister ships were either sunk during the battle or surrendered to the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Serving in the Baltic Sea during World War I, Slava was the largest ship of the Russian Gulf of Riga Squadron that fought the German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Gulf of Riga in August 1915. She repeatedly bombarded German positions and troops for the rest of 1915 and during 1916. During the Battle of Moon Sound in 1917, Slava was badly damaged by the German dreadnought SMS König, significantly increasing her draft. The shallow channel made it impossible to escape and she was scuttled in the Moon Sound Strait between the island of Muhu (Moon) and the mainland. The Estonians scrapped her during the 1930s.
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