Russian battleship Peresvet

Peresvet at anchor, 1901
History
Russian Empire
Name	Peresvet
Namesake	Alexander Peresvet
Builder	Baltic Yard, Saint Petersburg
Cost	10,540,000 rubles
Laid down	21 November 1895[Note 1]
Launched	19 May 1898 (1898-05-19)
In service	August 1901
Captured	January 1905 by the Japanese after the siege of Port Arthur
Fate	Scuttled, 7 December 1904
Japan
Name	Sagami
Namesake	Sagami Province
Acquired	Refloated, 29 June 1905
In service	20 July 1908
Reclassified	As 1st-class coast defense ship
Fate	Sold to Russia, March 1916
Russian Empire
Acquired	Bought, March 1916
Renamed	Peresvet
Reclassified	As armored cruiser, 5 April 1916
Fate	Sunk by mine off Port Said, Egypt, 4 January 1917
General characteristics
Class and type	Peresvet-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement	13,810 long tons (14,032 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 men
Armament	As built: 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 As Sagami: 2 × twin 10 in (254 mm) guns 10 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns 16 × single 12-pdr (3 in (76 mm)) guns 2 × 18 in (450 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor	Harvey armor Belt: 4–9 inches (102–229 mm) Deck: 2–3 inches (51–76 mm) Turrets: 9 inches (229 mm)

Peresvet (Russian: Пересвет) was the lead ship of the three Peresvet-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century. The ship was transferred to the Pacific Squadron upon completion and based at Port Arthur from 1903. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, she participated in the Battle of Port Arthur and was seriously damaged during the Battle of the Yellow Sea and again in the siege of Port Arthur. The ship was scuttled before the Russians surrendered, then salvaged by the Japanese and placed into service with the name Sagami (相模).

Partially rearmed, Sagami was reclassified by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as a coastal defense ship in 1912. In 1916, the Japanese sold her to the Russians, their allies since the beginning of World War I. En route to the White Sea in early 1917, she sank off Port Said, Egypt, after striking mines laid by a German submarine.
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