Peresvet-class battleship

Peresvet at anchor, 1901
Class overview
Name	Peresvet
Builders	Baltic Works, Saint Petersburg New Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg
Operators	Imperial Russian Navy  Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded by	Rostislav
Succeeded by	Potemkin
Subclasses	Pobeda
Built	1898–1903
In commission	1901–22
Completed	3
Lost	2
Scrapped	1
General characteristics
Type	Pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement	13,320–14,408 long tons (13,534–14,639 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 × single 15 in (381 mm) torpedo tubes 45 mines
Armor	Belt: 7–9 inches (178–229 mm) Deck: 1.46–3 inches (37–76 mm) Turrets: 9 inches (229 mm)

The Peresvet class was a group of three pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy around the end of the 19th century. Peresvet and Pobeda were transferred to the Pacific Squadron upon completion and based at Port Arthur from 1901 and 1903, respectively. All three ships were lost by the Russians in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05; Peresvet and Pobeda participated in the Battles of Port Arthur and the Yellow Sea and were sunk during the siege of Port Arthur. Oslyabya, the third ship, sailed to the Far East with the Second Pacific Squadron to relieve the Russian forces blockaded in Port Arthur and was sunk at the Battle of Tsushima with the loss of over half her crew.

Peresvet and Pobeda were salvaged after the Japanese captured Port Arthur and incorporated into the Imperial Japanese Navy. Peresvet was sold back to the Russians during World War I, as the two countries were by now allies, and sank after hitting German mines in the Mediterranean in early 1917 while Pobeda, renamed Suwo, remained instead in Japanese service and participated in the Battle of Tsingtao in late 1914. She became a gunnery training ship in 1917. The ship was disarmed in 1922 to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty and probably scrapped around that time.