Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleship

Imperator Aleksandr II
Class overview
Name	Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleship
Operators	Russian Navy  Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded by	Ekaterina II class
Succeeded by	Dvenadsat Apostolov
Subclasses	Imperator Nikolai I
Built	1885–1891
In commission	1891–1921
Completed	2
Lost	1
Scrapped	1
General characteristics Imperator Aleksandr II
Type	Predreadnought battleship
Displacement	9,244 long tons (9,392 t)
Length	346 ft 6 in (105.61 m)
Beam	66 ft 11 in (20.40 m)
Draft	25 ft 9 in (7.85 m)
Installed power	12 cylindrical boilers 8,289 ihp (6,181 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 compound steam engines
Speed	15.27 knots (28.28 km/h; 17.57 mph)
Range	4,440 nmi (8,220 km; 5,110 mi) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement	616
Armament	1 × twin 12 in (305 mm) guns 4 × single 9 in (229 mm) guns 8 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns 10 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) Hotchkiss revolving cannon 10 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) Hotchkiss revolving cannon 5 × single 15 in (381 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor	Compound armor Belt: 4–14 in (102–356 mm) Deck: 2.5 in (64 mm) Barbette: 10 in (254 mm) Barbette hood: 3 in (76 mm)

The Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleships were a pair of predreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1880s. They were intended to counter the small armored ships of the other Baltic powers. Construction was very prolonged and the ships were virtually obsolescent when completed. They were optimized for ramming.

Imperator Aleksandr II served in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas before becoming a gunnery training ship in 1904, but she was inactive during World War I before joining the Bolsheviks in 1917. She was sold for scrap in 1922. Imperator Nikolai I served in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas as well as the Pacific Ocean during the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War. She surrendered after the Battle of Tsushima in 1905 and was commissioned in the Imperial Japanese Navy before she was sunk as a target in 1915.