Russian battleship Sinop

Sinop as depicted in an 1893 lithograph
History
Russian Empire
Name	Sinop (Синоп)
Namesake	Battle of Sinop
Operator	Imperial Russian Navy
Ordered	12 July 1882
Builder	ROPiT Shipyard, Sevastopol
Cost	3,217,500 rubles
Laid down	June 1883
Launched	1 June 1887
Completed	1889
Out of service	1919
Fate	Sold for scrap 1922
General characteristics
Class and type	Ekaterina II-class battleship
Displacement	11,310 long tons (11,491 t)
Length	339 ft 3 in (103.4 m)
Beam	68 ft 11 in (21.0 m)
Draft	28 ft 3 in (8.6 m)
Installed power	9,000 ihp (6,711 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts 2 vertical triple expansion steam engines 14 cylindrical boilers
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Range	2,800 nmi (5,200 km; 3,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	633
Armament	As built: 3 × 2 – 12-inch (305 mm) guns 7 × 1 – 6-inch (152 mm) guns 8 × 1 – 47-millimeter (1.9 in) 5-barrel revolving Hotchkiss guns 4 × 1 – 37-millimeter (1.5 in) 5-barrel revolving Hotchkiss guns 7 × 1 – 14-inch (356 mm) torpedo tubes After 1910 refit: 4 x 1 – 203 mm (8.0 in)/50 guns 4 x 1 – 152 mm (6.0 in)/45 canet guns 2 x 1 – 47 mm (1.9 in)/43 Hotchkiss guns 4 x 1 – 7.62/94 machine guns
Armor	Compound armor Belt: 6–16 in (152–406 mm) Deck: 2.25–2.5 in (57–64 mm) Barbette: 12 in (305 mm) Barbette hood: 1.5 in (38 mm) Conning tower: 9 in (229 mm) Bulkheads: 9–10 in (229–254 mm)

The Russian battleship Sinop (Russian: Синоп) was a battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy, being the third ship of the Ekaterina II class. She was named after the Russian victory at the Battle of Sinop in 1853. The ship participated in the pursuit of the mutinous battleship Potemkin in June 1905^[a] and towed her back to Sevastopol from Constanța, Romania, where Potemkin had sought asylum. Several proposals were made for Sinop's reconstruction with modern guns and better quality armor during the 1900s, but both were cancelled. She was converted to a gunnery training ship in 1910 before she became a guardship at Sevastopol and had her 12-inch (305 mm) guns removed in exchange for four single 203 mm (8.0 in)/50 guns in turrets. Sinop was refitted in 1916 with torpedo bulges to act as "mine-bumpers" for a proposed operation in the heavily mined Bosphorus. Both the Bolsheviks and the Whites captured her during the Russian Civil War after her engines were destroyed by the British in 1919. She was scrapped by the Soviets beginning in 1922.
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