Japanese battleship Iwami

Oblique view of Oryol preparing to go to sea at Kronstadt, August 1904
History
Russian Empire
Name:	Оryol (Russian: Орёл)
Namesake:	Eagle
Ordered:	7 November 1899
Builder:	Galerniy Island Shipyards, Saint Petersburg
Laid down:	1 June 1900
Launched:	19 July 1902
Completed:	October 1904
Struck:	13 September 1905
Fate:	Captured by Japan, 28 May 1905
Empire of Japan
Name:	Iwami (Japanese: 石見)
Namesake:	Iwami Province
Acquired:	28 May 1905
In service:	June 1907
Out of service:	April 1922
Reclassified:	As 2nd-class coast defense ship, 1 September 1912 As 1st-class coast defense ship, September 1921
Struck:	1 September 1922
Fate:	Sunk as target, 10 July 1924
General characteristics
Class and type:	Borodino-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement:	14,151 long tons (14,378 t)
Length:	397 ft (121.0 m)
Beam:	76 ft 1 in (23.2 m)
Draft:	29 ft 2 in (8.9 m)
Installed power:	15,800 ihp (11,782 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 × twin 12 in (305 mm) guns 6 × twin 6 in (152 mm) guns 20 × single 75 mm (3 in) guns 20 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 4 × single 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)

Oryol (Russian: Орёл) was a Borodino-class battleship built for the Russian Imperial Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. The ship was completed a few months before the start of the Russo-Japanese War in February 1904 and was assigned to the Second Pacific Squadron sent to the Far East six months later to break the Japanese blockade of Port Arthur. The Japanese captured the port while the squadron was in transit and their destination was changed to Vladivostok. Oryol was badly damaged during the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905 and surrendered to the Japanese who put her into service under the name of Iwami (Japanese: 石見).

Reconstructed by the Japanese in 1905–1907, Iwami was reclassified by the Imperial Japanese Navy as a coastal defence ship in 1912. She participated in the Battle of Tsingtao at the beginning of World War I and supported the Japanese troops that landed in Siberia in 1918 during the Russian Civil War. Iwami was used as a training ship beginning in September 1921. The ship was disarmed in 1922 to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty and sunk as a target ship in 1924.