Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr II
Imperator Aleksandr II
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 Russian Empire
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| 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 |
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| 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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Imperator Aleksandr II (Russian: Император Александр II) was a 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 was named after the Emperor Alexander II of Russia. She was built by the New Admiralty Yard at Saint Petersburg. She was laid down in June 1885, launched in July 1887, and completed in June 1891, although her trials lasted until the spring of 1892.
She was 334 feet (101.8 m) long at the waterline and 346 feet 6 inches (105.6 m) long overall. She had a beam of 66 feet 11 inches (20.40 m) and a draft of 25 feet 9 inches (7.85 m). She displaced 9,244 long tons (9,392 t) at load, over 800 long tons (813 t) more than her designed displacement of 8,440 long tons (8,575 t).
Imperator Aleksandr II had two three-cylinder vertical compound steam engines driving 17-foot (5.2 m) screw propellers. Twelve cylindrical boilers provided steam to the engines. Her engines were built by Baltic Works and had a total designed output of 8,500 indicated horsepower (6,338 kW). On trials, the powerplant produced 8,289 ihp (6,181 kW), and a top speed of 15.27 knots (28.28 km/h; 17.57 mph). She carried 967 long tons (983 t) of coal that provided a range of 4,400 nautical miles (8,100 km) at a speed of 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) and 1,770 nautical miles (3,280 km) at a speed of 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph).
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