Russian battleship Navarin
Navarin underway at slow speed
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| Class overview | |
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| Operators: |
 Imperial Russian Navy
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| Preceded by: | Dvenadsat Apostolov |
| Succeeded by: | Tri Sviatitelia |
| Built: | 1890–1896 |
| In service: | 1896–1905 |
| Completed: | 1 |
| Lost: | 1 |
| History | |
 Russian Empire
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| Name: | Navarin |
| Namesake: | Battle of Navarino |
| Ordered: | 24 April 1889 |
| Builder: | Franco-Russian Works, Saint Petersburg |
| Laid down: | 31 May 1890 |
| Launched: | 20 October 1891 |
| In service: | June 1896 |
| Nickname(s): | Factory (Zavod) |
| Fate: | Sunk at the Battle of Tsushima, 28 May 1905 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement: | 10,206 long tons (10,370 t) |
| Length: | 351 ft (107.0 m) |
| Beam: | 67 ft (20.4 m) |
| Draft: | 27 ft (8.2296000 m) |
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| Propulsion: | 2 shafts, 2 Vertical triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Range: | 3,050 nmi (5,650 km; 3,510 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 24 officers, 417 men |
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Navarin (Russian: Наварин) was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The ship was assigned to the Baltic Fleet and spent the early part of her career deployed in the Mediterranean and in the Far East. She participated in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 before returning to the Baltic Fleet in 1901. Several months after the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War in February 1904, she was assigned to the 2nd Pacific Squadron to relieve the Russian forces blockaded in Port Arthur. During the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905, she was sunk by Japanese destroyers which spread twenty-four linked mines across her path during the night. Navarin struck two of these mines and capsized with the loss of most of her crew.
Navarin was a low-freeboard turret ship modeled on the British Trafalgar-class battleships. The original requirement had been for a much smaller ship, but the Navy changed its mind and required a larger ship capable of operating "in all European seas and [even be] able by its coal capacity to reach the Far East." Changes were made to the design after the ship was ordered that included the replacement of the main armament by more powerful guns of the same caliber and the increase in the secondary armament from six guns to eight.
The ship was 347 feet 6 inches (105.9 m) long at the waterline and 351 feet (107.0 m) long overall. She had a beam of 67 feet (20.4 m) and a draught of 27 feet 7 inches (8.4 m). She displaced 10,206 long tons (10,370 t), almost 800 long tons (810 t) more than her designed displacement of 9,476 long tons (9,628 t). Navarin's crew consisted of 24 officers and 417 enlisted men.
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