Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr II
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Imperator Aleksandr II (Russian: Император Александр II) was a Russian Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1880s. She was an artillery training ship assigned to the Baltic Fleet by the time of the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 and was not sent to the Pacific as was most of the rest of the Baltic Fleet. She was inactive at Kronstadt during World War I, but her crew was active in the revolutionary movement. She was turned over to the Kronstadt port authority on 21 April 1921 before she was sold for scrap on 22 August 1922. She was towed to Germany during the autumn of 1922, but was not stricken from the Navy List until 21 November 1925.
Imperator Aleksandr II as depicted by an 1893 lithograph | |
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Russian Empire | |
Name | Imperator Aleksandr II |
Namesake | Alexander II |
Builder | New Admiralty Yard, Saint Petersburg |
Laid down | 12 July 1885 |
Launched | 13 July 1887 |
Commissioned | June 1891 |
Out of service | 21 May 1921 |
Renamed | Zarya Svobody about 9 May 1917 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping 22 August 1922 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleship |
Displacement | 9,244 long tons (9,392 t) |
Length | 346 ft 6 in (105.61 m) |
Beam | 66 ft 11 in (20.40 m) |
Draught | 25 ft 9 in (7.85 m) |
Installed power | 8,289 ihp (6,181 kW) |
Propulsion | 2 shaft vertical compound steam engines, 12 cylindrical boilers |
Speed | 15.27 knots (28.28 km/h; 17.57 mph) |
Range | 4,400 nautical miles (8,100 km) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
Complement | 616 |
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