Russian battleship Peresvet

Peresvet at anchor, 1901
History
Russian Empire
Name:	Peresvet
Namesake:	Alexander Peresvet
Builder:	Baltic Yard, Saint Petersburg
Cost:	10,540,000 rubles
Laid down:	21 November 1895
Launched:	19 May 1898 (1898-05-19)
In service:	August 1901
Captured:	January 1905 by the Japanese after the Siege of Port Arthur
Fate:	Scuttled, 7 December 1904
Japan
Name:	Sagami
Namesake:	Sagami Province
Acquired:	Refloated, 29 June 1905
In service:	20 July 1908
Reclassified:	As 1st-class coast defense ship
Fate:	Sold to Russia, March 1916
Russian Empire
Namesake:	Battle of Chesma
Acquired:	Bought, March 1916
Renamed:	Peresvet
Reclassified:	As armored cruiser, 5 April 1916
Fate:	Sunk by mine off Port Said, Egypt, 4 January 1917
General characteristics
Class and type:	Peresvet-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement:	13,810 long tons (14,032 t)
Length:	434 ft 5 in (132.4 m)
Beam:	71 ft 6 in (21.8 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)

Peresvet (Russian: Пересвет) was the lead ship of the three Peresvet-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century. The ship was transferred to the Pacific Squadron upon completion and based at Port Arthur from 1903. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, she participated in the Battle of Port Arthur and was seriously damaged during the Battle of the Yellow Sea and again in the Siege of Port Arthur. The ship was scuttled before the Russians surrendered, then salvaged by the Japanese and placed into service with the name Sagami (相模^?).

Partially rearmed, Sagami was reclassified by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as a coastal defense ship in 1912. In 1916, the Japanese sold her to the Russians, their allies since the beginning of World War I. En route to the White Sea in early 1917, she sank off Port Said, Egypt, after striking mines laid by a German submarine.