Russian battleship Oslyabya

Oslyabya leaving Bizerte, French Tunisia, 1903
History
Russian Empire
Name	Oslyabya
Namesake	Rodion Oslyabya
Builder	New Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg
Cost	11,340,000 rubles
Laid down	21 November 1895[Note 1]
Launched	8 November 1898
In service	1903
Fate	Sunk at the Battle of Tsushima, 27 May 1905
General characteristics
Class and type	Peresvet-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement	14,408 long tons (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	30 Belleville boilers 14,500 ihp (10,813 kW)
Propulsion	3 shafts, 3 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 enlisted 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 × 15 in (381 mm) torpedo tubes 45 mines
Armor	Belt: 4–9 inches (102–229 mm) Deck: 2–3 inches (51–76 mm) Turrets: 9 inches (229 mm)

Oslyabya (Russian: Ослябя) was the second of the three Peresvet-class second-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century, although construction delays meant that she was the last to be completed. The ship was part of the Second Pacific Squadron sent to the Far East during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, and served as the flagship of Rear Admiral Baron Dmitry von Fölkersam. Oslyabya was sunk on 27 May 1905 at the Battle of Tsushima, and was the first all-steel battleship to be sunk by naval gunfire alone. Sources differ on the exact number of casualties, but over half her crew went down with the ship.
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