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Russian coast defense ship General Admiral Graf Apraksin

RUS General-Admiral Graf Apraksin in 1902.jpg
The Russian coastal battleship General Admiral Graf Apraksin, which later became the Japanese Okinoshima
History
Russian Empire
Name: General Admiral Graf Apraksin
Builder: New Admiralty Works, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Laid down: 24 October 1894
Launched: 12 May 1896
Commissioned: 1899
Struck: 28 May 1905
Status: prize of war to Japan
Japan
Name: Okinoshima
Acquired: 1905
Commissioned: 6 June 1905
Decommissioned: 1 April 1922
Fate: memorial ship
Status: scrapped Sept 1939
General characteristics
Class and type: Admiral Ushakov-class coastal defense ship
Displacement: 4,165 tons (normal); 4,270 tons (max)
Length: 80.62 m (264.5 ft) at waterline
Beam: 15.85 m (52.0 ft)
Draught: 5.18 m (17.0 ft)
Propulsion: Two Shaft VTE steam engine, 6,000 shp (4,470 kW); 4 boilers
Speed: 15 knots (28 km/h)
Range:
  • 313 tons coal;
  • 3,000 nautical miles (6,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Complement: 406
Armament:
  • 3 × 254 mm (10 in) guns
  • 4 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns
  • 10 × 47 mm (1.9 in) guns
  • 12 × 37 mm (1.5 in) guns
  • 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedoes
Armour:
  • Belt: 250 mm (9.8 in)
  • Deck: 75 mm (3 in)
  • Turret: 200 mm (7.9 in)

General Admiral Graf Apraksin (Russian: Генерал-адмирал Апраксин), sometimes transliterated as Apraxin, was a member of the Admiral Ushakov-class coastal defense ships of the Imperial Russian Navy. She was named after General Admiral Fyodor Matveyevich Apraksin, the first commander of Russian Baltic Fleet. She was one of eight Russian pre-dreadnought battleships captured by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. She subsequently served in the Japanese Navy as Okinoshima (沖ノ島?) until removed from service in 1922.

She had only three guns (a single gun turret aft, as shown in the photograph), instead of her sister ships, which were equipped with four guns.

In November 1899, shortly after entering service with the Baltic Fleet, Graf Apraksin ran aground on Hogland Island in the Gulf of Finland. It was hoped that she could be salvaged, as a similar incident in 1897 had cost the Russian Navy another battleship, Gangut. Apraksin's crew were ordered to remain aboard to maintain the ship as best they could when the Gulf froze over for the winter.


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