 Tri Sviatitelia at anchor
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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Tri Sviatitelia |
| Operators |  Imperial Russian Navy |
| Preceded by | Navarin |
| Succeeded by | Sissoi Veliky |
| Built | 1891–1896 |
| In commission | 1896–1923 |
| Completed | 1 |
| Scrapped | 1 |
| History | |
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| Name | Tri Sviatitelia (Russian: Три Святителя) |
| Namesake | Three Holy Hierarchs |
| Operator | Imperial Russian Navy |
| Builder | Nikolayev Dockyard |
| Laid down | 15 August 1891[Note 1] |
| Launched | 12 November 1893 |
| Completed | 1896 |
| Stricken | 21 November 1925 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1923 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement | 13,318 long tons (13,532 t) |
| Length | 378 ft (115.2 m) |
| Beam | 73 ft 3 in (22.3 m) |
| Draught | 28 ft 6 in (8.7 m) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 triple expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
| Range | 2,250 nmi (4,170 km; 2,590 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 730 |
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Tri Sviatitelia (Russian: Три Святителя, meaning the Three Holy Hierarchs) was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the 1890s. She served with the Black Sea Fleet and was flagship of the forces pursuing the mutinous battleship Potemkin in June 1905. During World War I the ship encountered the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben (formally Yavuz Sultan Selim) twice, but never hit the German ship, nor was she damaged by her. From 1915 onward she was relegated to the coast bombardment role as she was the oldest battleship in the fleet. Tri Sviatitelia was refitting in Sevastopol when the February Revolution of 1917 began and she was never operational afterwards.
Tri Sviatitelia was captured when the Germans took the city in May 1918 and was turned over to the Allies after the Armistice in November 1918. Her engines were destroyed in 1919 by the British when they withdrew from Sevastopol to prevent the advancing Bolsheviks from using her against the White Russians. She was abandoned when the Whites evacuated the Crimea in 1920 and was scrapped in 1923.
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