Borodino Class Battleship (Not Izmail)

[Pallada1895]

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Builders:

Baltic Works

Saint Petersburg

 

New Admiralty Shipyard

Saint Petersburg

 

Operators:  

Imperial Russian Navy

Imperial Japanese Navy

 

 

 

Notes: Don't Be Fooled Between Izmail/Borodino Class Battlecruiser and Borodino Class Pre Dreadnought Battleship.

 

 

The Borodino class was a class of five pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy around the end of the 19th century. Their design was based on that of the French-built Tsesarevich, but modified to use Russian equipment. The first four ships were finished after the start of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05 and among the ships ordered to sail from the Baltic Sea to the Far East to relieve the Pacific Squadron besieged by the Japanese in Port Arthur. Three of these ships were sunk and one was captured by the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Tsushima in 1905. The fifth and final ship, Slava, was not completed in time to participate in the war and served with the Baltic Fleet through World War I. She spent most of the war defending the Gulf of Riga and was badly damaged by German dreadnoughts during the Battle of Moon Sound in 1917. This damage forced the ship to scuttle herself because she had taken on too much water and could not pass through the shallow channel that connected the Gulf of Riga with the Baltic. The wreck was scrapped during the 1930s by the Estonians.

 

 

 

Built:  1899–1905

In service:  1904–1922

In commission:  1904–1922

 

 

Type:  Pre-dreadnought battleship

 

Displacement:  14,091–14,415 long tons (14,317–14,646 t)

 

Length:  397 ft (121.0 m)

 

Beam:  76 ft 1 in (23.2 m)

 

Draft:  29 ft (8.84 m)

 

Installed power:  15,800–16,300 ihp (11,782–12,155 kW)

20 Belleville boilers

 

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

 

Armament:  2 × 2 - 12 in (305 mm) guns

 

6 × 2 - 6 inches (152 mm) guns

 

20 × 1 - 75 mm (3 in) guns

 

20 × 1 - 47 mm (1.9 in) guns

 

4 × 1 - 15 in (381 mm) torpedo tubes

 

Armor:

 

Krupp armor

 

Belt: 7.64–5.7 inches (194–145 mm)

 

Deck: 1–2 inches (25–51 mm)

 

Turrets: 10 inches (254 mm)

[sgtpepper500]

Nice info(+1)

[Pallada1895]

sgtpepper500, on 01 January 2013 - 04:02 PM, said:

Nice info(+1)

Thanks. But credit that info to Wiki.

[PrototypeRewired]

Looks like tier 2 premium. :Smile_great:

[Wunderwaffen1945]

Slow motion mother russia

[Pallada1895]

Wunderwaffen1945, on 02 January 2013 - 07:30 AM, said:

Slow motion mother russia

But got many Fangs they have.

[sharlin648]

Whilst a lovely looking ship, they were probably the worst battleships of their period.  They were under armoured, overweight, not as fast as planned and as was proved in battle distressingly flammable.

 

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[Masterrix]

this should be a Tier 2 or Tier 3 ship

[sharlin648]

Sadly no pre-dreadnoughts will feature in the game according to the devs. The earliest it will go back is 1906 starting with HMS Dreadnought herself.  The Borodino's were constructed in 1905.