Poltava
Pre-Dreadnought Battleship
On the Black Sea, the old battleship (an "excluded ship") "Scesma" was assembled with casemates with thin armor (120 mm), and guns of different calibers shooting from different distances. The result stunned everyone - the ship's hull was vulnerable even by the German light cruiser artillery. But the trials were clearly too late. They needed to be carried out before the start of construction, and after construction of the ships it was too late to do anything. The armor (229 mm) was clearly too weak. Therefore, they cruised through the war between Helsingfors and Reval for Central Mine position. In addition, because of the large construction period they became obsolete. By 1914, England had in service battleships with 343-mm artillery, and in the US, with 356-mm. England finished building battleships with 381-mm artillery with much larger displacement and, therefore, great potential.
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| Name | Keel Laid |
Launch | Comm | Builder | Notes |
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| Poltava (later Japanese Tango, later Russian Tchesma) | May 1892 | 6 Nov 1894 | Admiralty | Sunk at Port Arthur, Dec 1904, captured by Japanese forces 2 Jan 1905. Returned to Russia 1916(?) Scrapped 1923 | |
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| Sevastopol |
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