Russian Battleships

Russian battleships of the First World War and the Soviet Battleships of world war two, shown in dedicated naval web pages to the various Battleships and classes. Use side navigational bar to battleship of interest. Many of these page's are still under construction
Ship Name	Launch Date		Fate
Sevastopol broadside ironclad	1864		Stricken 1887

Petropavlovsk broadside ironclad	1864		Stricken 1885
Pervenetz Class Coast Defence Ironclads
Pervenetz	1863		Stricken 1905
Kreml	1865		Stricken 1905
Netron Menya	1864		Stricken 1905

Kniaz Pojarski central battery ship	1867		Stricken 1907

Minin turret ship	1869		Sunk 15th August 1915
Bronenosetz Class Coast Defence Monitors
Bronenosetz	1864		Stricken 1900
Edinorog	1864		Stricken 1900
Koldun	1864		Stricken 1900
Latnik	1864		Stricken 1900
Lava	1864		Stricken 1900
Perun	1864		Stricken 1900
Stryeletz	1864		Stricken 1900
Tifon	1864		Stricken 1900
Uragan	1864		Stricken 1900
Vyeshtchun	1864		Stricken 1900

Smerch coast defence	1864		Stricken 1900
Charodeika Class Coast Defence Turret Ships
Charodeika	1867		Stricken 1907
Charodeika, 1890. A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available. Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder. A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25. Order photograph here Order Code XMP5808 Original republished © MPL Photograph (Postcard Size). Price £5 Click here to order. Order Code MP5808
Russalka	1867		Lost 19th September 1893
Admiral Lazarev Class Coast Defence Turret Ships
Admiral Lazarev	1867		Stricken 1907
Admiral Spiridov

Novgorod coast defence	1873		Stricken 1900 (Circular Ship)
Novgorod, 1874. A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available. Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder. A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25. Order photograph here Order Code XMP5809 Original republished © MPL Photograph (Postcard Size). Price £5 Click here to order. Order Code MP5809

Vice Admiral Popov coast defence	1875		Stricken 1900 (Circular Ship)
Vice Admiral Popov, building, 1877. A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available. Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder. A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25. Order photograph here Order Code XMP5812 Original republished © MPL Photograph (Postcard Size). Price £5 Click here to order. Order Code MP5812
Vice Admiral Popov, building, 1877. A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available. Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder. A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25. Order photograph here Order Code XMP5810 Original republished © MPL Photograph (Postcard Size). Price £5 Click here to order. Order Code MP5810		Vice Admiral Popov, building, 1877. A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available. Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder. A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25. Order photograph here Order Code XMP5811 Original republished © MPL Photograph (Postcard Size). Price £5 Click here to order. Order Code MP5811
Petr Veliki Turret Ship. Iron Hulled Turret Ship built at Galernii Island and laid down on the 1st June 1869, launched 27th August 1872 and completed October 1876. The Petr Veliki joined the Baltic Fleet in 1876. her armour was made up of 22 inches of Wood incased in two 7 inch Wrought Iron Plates. having a lot of Engine problems she went to Glasgow for refit. and her engines replaced with more powerful expansion engines and her boilers replaced. as the same refit she has her armament improved with the addition of Four 8.4 inch guns and two Torpedo Tubes added. (submerged) Used as a gunnery training ship in 1905/6. After a major refit she was renamed Respublikanets in 1917. She was hulked one year later and then converted to a mine depot ship called Barrikada. Broken up in 1959. Displacement: 9665 tons, Speed: 14 knots. Crew 432 Armament: Four 12 inch guns, and six 3.4 inch guns (see additions above)
Petr Veliki	27th August 1872		Used as a gunnery training ship in 1905/6. After a major refit she was renamed Respublikanets in 1917. She was hulked one year later and then converted to a mine depot ship called Barrikada. Broken up in 1959.
Petr Veliki, 1906. A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available. Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder. A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25. Order photograph here Order Code XMP5813 Original republished © MPL Photograph (Postcard Size). Price £5 Click here to order. Order Code MP6813
Ekaterina II Class View Class
Tchesma	18th May 1886		Served in Black Sea Fleet in 1906. Taken off the list in 1907 and used as an experimental target.
Ekaterina II	22nd May 1886		Stricken in 1907. Served with the Black Sea Fleet in 1906. Served as coastal defence ship during WW1.
Georgi Pobiedonosets	9th March 1892		Captured by Germans in May 1918 and then transferred to the British in November 1918. Sold in 1924.
Sinop	1st June 1887		Served with the Black Sea Fleet in 1906 and then with the Battleship Brigade in 1914. Served as coastal defence ship during WW1. Captured by Germans and then transferred to British in 1918. Broken up for scrap in 1922.
Imperator Alexander II Class
Imperator Alexander II	26th July 1887		Served with the Baltic Fleet in 1906. Used as a training ship in 1914. Renamed Zarya Svobody on 22nd May 1917 she saw action during the Bolshevik Revolution. Hulked in 1918 and stricken in 1925.
Imperator Nikolai I	June 1889		Stricken 1918
Imperator Nikolai I "Inside of the breakwater, Ponta Delgado, Azores" Possibly en route to the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Thanks to Tom Lindsay. A reproduction of this original photo / photo-postcard size 10" x 7" approx available. Order photograph here © Walker Archive. Order Code PAN155

Dvienadstat Apostolov barbette ship	13th September 1890		Hulked in 1912. In 1925 she was used as a dummy battleship (Kniaz Potemkin-Tavericheski) in a film. Scrapped in the late 1920s.

Gangut barbette ship	October 1890		Lost 1897

Navarin turret ship	20th October 1891		Sunk 28th May 1905
Navarin Sent in by Thomas Racine		Navarin, 1896. A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available. Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder. A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25. Order photograph here Order Code XMP5814 Original republished © MPL Photograph (Postcard Size). Price £5 Click here to order. Order Code MP5814

Tri Svititelia turret ship	12th November 1893		Modernised in 1911-12. Captured by the German Navy in April 1918 at Sevastopol. Transferred to Britain in November 1918. Broken up in 1922.

Sissoli Veliki	June 1894		Scuttled and sank after Tshushima on 28th May 1905.
Admiral Ushakov Class
One of the Admiral Ushakov Class battleships. Sent in by Thomas Racine
Admiral Ushakov	November 1893		Sunk on 28th May 1905.
Admiral Seniavin	August 1894		Sold for scrap in 1928.
General Admiral Graf Apraksin	May 1896		Sold for scrap in 1926.
Petropavlovsk Class View Class
Petropavlovsk	9th November 1894		Sank on 13th April 1904.
Poltava	6th November 1894		Scrapped in 1923.
Sevastopol	1st June 1895		Scuttled on 2nd January 1905.

Rostislav	1st September 1896		Placed into reserve in 1914 but reactivated and took part in operations against Turkish installations in 1917. Captured by the Germans at Sevstopol in April 1918. She was used as an accommodation ship until captured by the British in November 1918. Used as a floating battery in 1919 and then scuttled on 16th November 1920.
Peresviet Class View Class
Peresviet	May 1898		Sank on 4th January 1917.
Osliabia	November 1898		Sank at Tsushima on 27th May 1905.
Pobieda	May 1900		Scrapped 1922.

Pantelimon	26th September 1900		She was originally called the Kniaz Potemkin-Tavricheski but was renamed to Pantelimon in 1905 to wipe out the records of the crews mutiny. Refitted in 1910, 1915 and 1916. Her original name was reinstated on 13th April 1917 but promptly changed again to Borets za Svobodu in May. Captured by the German Navy in April 1918 at Sevastopol. Transferred to Britain in November 1918. Broken up in 1922.

Retvisan	October 1900		Used as a target ship and sunk on July 1924.
Retvizan. Sent in by Thomas Racine		Retvizan Sent in by Thomas Racine

Tsesarevich	23rd February 1901		Transferred to the Baltic Fleet she was refitted and renamed Grashdanin on 13th April 1917. Bomber by German battleship Kronprinz in the Gulf of Riga on 17th October 1917 but escaped. Hulked in May 1918 and eventually sold to German breakers. Broken up in 1924.
Borodino Class View Class
Borodino	8th September 1901		Sunk 27th May 1905
Imperator Alexander III	3rd August 1901		Sunk 27th May 1905
Orel	19th July 1902		Scrapped 1922
Kniaz Suvarov	25th September 1902		Sunk 27th May 1905
Slava	29th August 1903		Refitted during world war one. Scuttled by a torpedo from Turkmenets-Stavropolski on 17th October 1917 after damage inflicted by the German battleship Konig. Broken up in 1935.
Iaonn Zlatoust Class
Evstafi	3rd November 1906		Served with the Black Sea Fleet from 1910. Captured by the German Navy in May 1918 and then transferred to the British. Broken up in 1922.
Ioann Zlatoust	14th May 1906		Served with the Black Sea Fleet from 1910. Captured by the German Navy in May 1918 and then transferred to the British. Broken up in 1922.
Imperator Pavel I Class View Class
Andrei Pervozvanny	20th October 1906		Served with the Black Sea Fleet from 1910. Refitted during 1916-17. Captured by the Bolsheviks in October 1917 she took part in the Revolution and Civil War. She was damagedby a torpedo from British ship CMB88 at Kronstadt on 18th August 1919. Taken off list in 1924.
Imperator Pavel I	7th September 1907		Served with the Black Sea Fleet from 1910. Refitted during 1916-17.Renamed Respublika on 29th April 1917 and laid up in September 1918. Sold in November 1923.
Gangut Class
Gangut	7th October 1911		Renamed Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya on 27th May 1925. Scrapped 1959.
Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya, 1935. A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available. Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder. A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25. Order photograph here Order Code XMP5821 Original republished © MPL Photograph (Postcard Size). Price £5 Click here to order. Order Code MP5821
Petropavlovsk (Renamed Marat)	9th September 1911		Served in the Active Squadron of the Baltic Fleet. Sunk on 17th August 1919 by torpedoes from CMB31 and CMB88. Damaged beyond repair on 23rd September 1941.
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Marat, May 1937. A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available. Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder. A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25. Order photograph here Order Code XMP5824 Original republished © MPL Photograph (Postcard Size). Price £5 Click here to order. Order Code MP5824		Marat, May 1937. A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available. Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder. A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25. Order photograph here Order Code XMP5825 Original republished © MPL Photograph (Postcard Size). Price £5 Click here to order. Order Code MP5825
Poltava	10th July 1911		Severe fire damage meant she was not repaired but was used for experimental purposes. Renamed Frunze on 7th January 1926, repairs though started were never complete. Sunk in Leningrad in 1941 but raised in 1944 and broken up in the mid 1950s.
Sevastopol (Renamed Parizhskaya Komuna)	27th June 1911		Renamed to Parizhskaya Komuna on 31st March 1921. Scrapped in 1957.
Imperatritsa Mariya Class View Class
Imperatritsa Mariya	1st November 1913		Capsized and sank on 20th October 1916due to an explosion of propellants. Wreck was raised on 18th June 1918 and scrapped in 1922.
Volya	15th April 1914		Renamed from Imperator Alexander III on 29th April 1917. Captured by the German Navy and served with them until transferred to the British. Sent to Turkey in April 1919 and renamed on 17th October as General Alekseev. Sold in 1924 and broken up in 1936.
Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya	6th June 1914		Renamed from Ekaterina II on 27th June 1915. Renamed again to Svobodnaya Rossiya on 29th April 1917.

Imperator Nikolai I	18th October 1916		Never completed, the hull was destroyed by the allies in 1919 and broken up in 1923/4.
Borodino Class View Class
Borodino	1st July 1915		Never completed it was broken up in 1923.
Izmail	27th June 1915		Never completed it was broken up in 1931.
Kinburn	30th October 1915		Never completed it was broken up in 1923.
Navarin	9th November 1916		Never completed it was broken up in 1923.