Pre-Dreadnought Battleships: Imperator Aleksandr II Class

[Brian James]

Lead Ship.Pre-Dreadnought Battleship IRN Imperator Aleksandr II pictured in 1892.She was an Gunnery Training ship assigned to the Baltic Fleet by the time of the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 and was not sent to the Pacific as was most of the rest of the Baltic Fleet. She was inactive at Kronstadt during World War I, but her crew was active in the revolutionary movement. She was turned over to the Kronstadt port authority on April 21st 1921 before she was sold for scrap on August 22nd 1922. She was towed to Germany during the autumn of 1922, but was not stricken from the Navy List until November 21st 1925.