Russian battleship Georgii Pobedonosets
Broadside view of Georgii Pobedonosets
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| Name: | Georgii Pobedonosets (Russian: Георгий Победоносец) |
| Namesake: | Saint George the Victorious |
| Ordered: | 27 March 1889 |
| Builder: | ROPiT Shipyard, Sevastopol |
| Cost: | 3,000,000 rubles |
| Laid down: | 5 May 1891 |
| Launched: | 9 March 1892 |
| Commissioned: | 1893? |
| Decommissioned: | 1920 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap between 1930 and 1936 |
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| Class and type: | Ekaterina II-class battleship |
| Displacement: | 11,032 long tons (11,209 t) |
| Length: | 339 ft 4 in (103.4 m) |
| Beam: | 68 ft 11 in (21.0 m) |
| Draft: | 27 ft 11 in (8.5 m) |
| Installed power: | 9,843 ihp (7,340 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts, vertical triple expansion steam engines, 16 cylindrical boilers |
| Speed: | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) (on trials) |
| Range: | 2,800 nmi (5,200 km; 3,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) or 1,367 nmi (2,532 km; 1,573 mi) at 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph) |
| Complement: | 642 |
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Georgii Pobedonosets (Russian: Георгий Победоносец Saint George the Victorious) was a battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy, the fourth and final ship of the Ekaterina II class. She was, however, only a half-sister to the others as her armor scheme was different and she was built much later than the earlier ships. She participated in the pursuit of the mutinous battleship Potemkin in June 1905, but her crew mutinied themselves. However, loyal crew members regained control of the ship the next day and they ran her aground when Potemkin threatened to fire on her if she left Odessa harbor. She was relegated to second-line duties in 1908. She fired on SMS Goeben during her bombardment of Sevastopol in 1914, but spent most of the war serving as a headquarters ship in Sevastopol. She was captured by both sides during the Russian Civil War, but ended up being towed to Bizerte by the fleeing White Russians where she was eventually scrapped.
Georgii Pobedonosets was originally intended as a version of Sinop rearmed with three 12-inch (300 mm) and four 9-inch (230 mm) guns, but this changed when the decision was made to provide her with three twin 12-inch turrets rather than the barbettes used by her sisters. The turrets were significantly heavier than the barbette mountings so the armour scheme was revised in compensation. However this revised design was still deemed overweight and rejected. The Naval Ministry held a competition for a replacement, but these were rejected by the Naval Technical Committee in turn. So a modified version of Sinop, with barbettes, was chosen again as the most readily available choice. The height of her armour was lowered to reduce the overweight condition of her half-sisters. Other changes were made while building, but they came early in the process and did not seriously delay her completion past her contractual date of 13 September 1893. These changes included smaller mountings for her main guns that eliminated the sponsons needed in her sisters for the forward barbettes, the substitution of 35-calibre guns for the older 30-calibre guns and steel armor imported from Schnider et Cie of France replaced the compound armour used in her half-sisters.
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