Russian battleship Tri Sviatitelia

Tri Sviatitelia at anchor
Class overview
Name:	Tri Sviatitelia
Operators:	Imperial Russian Navy
Preceded by:	Navarin
Succeeded by:	Rostislav
Built:	1891–1896
In commission:	1896–1923
Completed:	1
Scrapped:	1
History
Russian Empire
Name:	Tri Sviatitelia (Russian: Три Святителя)
Namesake:	Three Holy Hierarchs
Operator:	Imperial Russian Navy
Builder:	Nikolayev Dockyard
Laid down:	15 August 1891
Launched:	12 November 1893
Completed:	1896
Struck:	21 November 1925
Fate:	Scrapped 1922
General characteristics
Type:	Pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement:	13,318 long tons (13,532 t)
Length:	378 ft (115.2 m)
Beam:	73 ft 3 in (22.3 m)
Draught:	28 ft 6 in (8.7 m)
Installed power:	10,600 ihp (7,904 kW)
Propulsion:	2 shafts, 2 Vertical triple expansion steam engines 14 coal-fired fire-tube boilers
Speed:	16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph)
Range:	2,250 nmi (4,170 km; 2,590 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	730
Armament:	2 × 2 – 12-inch (305 mm) guns 8 × 1 – 6-inch (152 mm) guns 4 × 1 – 4.7-inch (119 mm) guns 10 × 1 – 47-millimetre (1.9 in) guns 40 × 1 – 37-millimetre (1.5 in) guns 6 × 1 – 15-inch (381 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:	Harvey armour Belt: 16–18 inches (406–457 mm) Deck: 2–3 inches (51–76 mm) Turrets: 16 inches (406 mm) Conning tower: 12 inches (305 mm) Bulkheads: 14–16 inches (356–406 mm)

Tri Sviatitelia (Russian: Три Святителя meaning the Three Holy Hierarchs) was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the 1890s. She served with the Black Sea Fleet and was flagship of the forces pursuing the mutinous battleship Potemkin in June 1905. During World War I the ship encountered the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben (formally Yavuz Sultan Selim) twice, but never hit the German ship, nor was she damaged by her. From 1915 onward she was relegated to the coast bombardment role as she was the oldest battleship in the Black Sea Fleet. Tri Sviatitelia was refitting in Sevastopol when the February Revolution of 1917 began and she was never operational afterwards.

Tri Sviatitelia was captured when the Germans took the city in May 1918 and was turned over to the Allies after the Armistice in November 1918. Her engines were destroyed in 1919 by the British when they withdrew from Sevastopol to prevent the advancing Bolsheviks from using her against the White Russians. She was abandoned when the Whites evacuated the Crimea in 1920 and was scrapped in 1923.

Tri Sviatitelia's design was based on an enlarged version of the Baltic Fleet battleship Navarin with some improvements in armour and armament.

Tri Sviatitelia was 371 feet (113.1 m) long at the waterline and 378 feet (115.2 m) long overall. She had a beam of 73 feet 3 inches (22.3 m) and a draught of 28 feet 6 inches (8.7 m). She displaced 13,415 long tons (13,630 t), over 800 long tons (810 t) more than her designed displacement of 12,480 long tons (12,680 t).Tri Sviatitelia was considerably larger than Navarin, being 23 feet 6 inches (7.2 m) longer, 6 feet (1.8 m) wider and displacing 3,000 long tons (3,000 t) more. She had a metacentric height of 5.58 feet (1.7 m).

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