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General-Admiral Apraksin

General-Admiral Apraksin

Captured

Imperial Russian Navy, then Imperial Japanese Navy

TypeCoast-defence battleship
ClassAdmiral Ushakov
WarRusso-Japanese War
Main guns3 × 254 mm (10 in) guns

Service

1899–1905General-Admiral Apraksin
from 1905Okinoshima

Captured at Tsushima

Surrendered at Tsushima.

Russian coastal defense battleship General-Admiral Apraksin in 1902, Kronstadt; it later became the IJN Okinoshima in the Japanese navy. Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

As built

  • 3 × 254 mm (10 in) guns
  • 4 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns
  • 10 × 47 mm (1.9 in) guns
  • 12 × 37 mm (1.5 in) guns
  • 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes

As Okinoshima

  • 6 × 152 mm (6.0 in) guns
  • 2 × 47 mm (1.9 in) Hotchkiss guns

Armour

  • Belt: 250 mm (9.8 in)
  • Deck: 75 mm (3 in)
  • Turret: 200 mm (7.9 in)
BuilderNew Admiralty Works, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Laid down24 October 1894
Launched12 May 1896
Commissioned1899
Displacement4,165 tons (normal); 4,270 tons (max)
Length80.62 m (264.5 ft) at waterline
Speed15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement406

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

12 May 1896

27–28 May 1905

Fate

Captured

Sold 1925, Memorial ship

Scrapped, September 1939