Japanese battleship Suwo

Sister ship Peresvet at anchor, 1901
History
Russian Empire
Name:	Pobeda
Namesake:	Victory
Ordered:	26 April 1898
Builder:	Baltic Works, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Cost:	10,050,000 rubles
Laid down:	21 February 1899
Launched:	10 May 1900
In service:	October 1902
Fate:	Sunk, 7 December 1904
Japan
Name:	Suwo
Namesake:	Suō Province
Acquired:	Refloated, 17 October 1905
Commissioned:	October 1908
Struck:	1922
Fate:	Probably scrapped, 1922–23
General characteristics
Class and type:	Peresvet-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement:	13,320 long tons (13,534 t)
Length:	434 ft 5 in (132.4 m)
Draft:	26 ft 3 in (8.0 m)
Installed power:	14,500 ihp (10,813 kW) 30 Belleville boilers
Propulsion:	3 shafts, 3 Vertical triple-expansion steam engines
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Range:	6,200 nmi (11,500 km; 7,100 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	27 officers, 744 men
Armament:	2 × twin 10 in (254 mm) guns 11 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns 20 × single 75 mm (3 in) guns 20 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 8 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) guns 5 × 15 in (381 mm) torpedo tubes 45 mines
Armor:	Harvey armor Belt: 4–9 inches (102–229 mm) Deck: 2–3 inches (51–76 mm) Turrets: 9 inches (229 mm)

Pobeda, (Russian: Победа, translit. Victory), was the last of the three Peresvet-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century. The ship was assigned to the Pacific Squadron upon completion and based at Port Arthur from 1903. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, she participated in the battles of Port Arthur and the Yellow Sea. Having escaped serious damage in these engagements, Pobeda was sunk by gunfire during the Siege of Port Arthur, and then salvaged by the Japanese and placed into service under the name Suwo (周防^?).

Rearmed and re-boilered by the Japanese, Suwo was reclassified by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as a coastal defense ship in 1908 and served as a training ship for several years. She was the flagship of the Japanese squadron that participated in the Battle of Tsingtao at the beginning of World War I and continued in that role until she became a gunnery training ship in 1917. The ship was disarmed in 1922 to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty and probably scrapped around that time.