Russian battleship Georgii Pobedonosets

Broadside view of Georgii Pobedonosets
History
Russian Empire
Name	Georgii Pobedonosets (Russian: Георгий Победоносец)
Namesake	Saint George the Victorious
Ordered	27 March 1889
Builder	ROPiT Shipyard, Sevastopol
Cost	3,000,000 rubles
Laid down	5 May 1891
Launched	9 March 1892
Commissioned	September 1893
Decommissioned	1920
Fate	Sold for scrap between 1930 and 1936
General characteristics
Class and type	Ekaterina II-class battleship
Displacement	11,032 long tons (11,209 t)
Length	339 ft 4 in (103.4 m)
Beam	68 ft 11 in (21.0 m)
Draft	27 ft 11 in (8.5 m)
Installed power	9,843 ihp (7,340 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts, vertical triple expansion steam engines, 16 cylindrical boilers
Speed	16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) (on trials)
Range	2,800 nmi (5,200 km; 3,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) or 1,367 nmi (2,532 km; 1,573 mi) at 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph)
Complement	642
Armament	3 × 2 – 12-inch (305 mm) guns 7 × 1 – 6-inch (152 mm) guns 8 × 1 – 47-millimeter (1.9 in) guns 10 × 1 – 37-millimeter (1.5 in) guns 7 × 1 – 14-inch (356 mm) torpedo tubes 65 mines
Armor	Belt: 6–16 in (152–406 mm) Deck: 1.5–2.25 in (38–57 mm) Barbette: 12 in (305 mm) Barbette hood: 1.5–2.5 in (38–64 mm) Conning tower: 9 in (229 mm) Bulkheads: 9–10 in (229–254 mm)

Georgii Pobedonosets (Russian: Георгий Победоносец Saint George the Victorious) was a battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy, the fourth and final ship of the Ekaterina II class. She was, however, only a half-sister to the others as her armor scheme was different and she was built much later than the earlier ships. She participated in the pursuit of the mutinous battleship Potemkin in June 1905,^{[Note 1]} but her crew mutinied themselves. However, loyal crew members regained control of the ship the next day and they ran her aground when Potemkin threatened to fire on her if she left Odessa harbor. She was relegated to second-line duties in 1908. She fired on SMS Goeben during her bombardment of Sevastopol in 1914, but spent most of the war serving as a headquarters ship in Sevastopol. She was captured by both sides during the Russian Civil War, but ended up being towed to Bizerte by the fleeing White Russians where she was eventually scrapped.
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