Pre-Dreadnought: IRN Tsesarevich

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Pre-Dreadnought: IRN Tsesarevich

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Pre-Dreadnought Battleship IRN Tsesarevich pictured under construction at Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée Shipyards at La Seyne-sur-Mer,Toulon in 1900.Russian Shipyards were already at full capacity so the Naval Ministry decided to order ships from abroad. Specifications were issued on June 14th 1898 and a few days later the chief designer of the French Shipyard Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée proposed a design based on that of the French Battleship Jauréguiberry. The Naval Technical Committee approved the design with a few changes to which the French readily agreed. The General Admiral, Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich, selected the French design over a competing proposal from the Baltic Works. A contract was signed on July 20th 1898 at a cost of 30.28 million francs (11.355 million rubles) for delivery in 42 months.
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Here she is with 1 new funnel; both basically destroyed by IJN! Also, the before.

Nice, clean pic of her French launch Brian!! :D DFO
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Launch day for Pre-Dreadnought Battleship IRN Tsesarevich at Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée Shipyards at La Seyne-sur-Mer,Toulon on February 23rd 1901.The ship's design formed the basis of the Russian-built Borodino Class Battleships. She was based at Port Arthur, northeast China, after entering service and fought in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905.Tsesarevich was torpedoed during the surprise attack on Port Arthur and was repaired to become the flagship of Rear Admiral Wilgelm Vitgeft in the Battle of the Yellow Sea and was interned in Tsingtau after the battle.
After the war, she was transferred to the Baltic Fleet and helped to suppress the Sveaborg Rebellion in mid-1906. While on a Mediterranean cruise, her crew helped survivors of the 1908 Messina earthquake in Sicily.Tsesarevich was not very active during the early part of World War I and her bored sailors joined the general mutiny of the Baltic Fleet in early 1917. Now named Grazhdanin she participated in the Battle of Moon Sound in 1917, during which she was lightly damaged.She was seized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution in late 1917 and decommissioned the following year.She was scrapped in 1924–1925.
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Here she is leading the Baltic "Fleet" in 1912. Also, iced in during a winter! :o Not that unusual in those waters. DFO
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The second photo in colour is brilliant.

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The Japanese artist who does these is brilliant!!! :D
Here is the dreadnought GANGUT which he did, too! DFO
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Pre-Dreadnought Battleship IRN Tsesarevich pictured c1903.
Tsar Nicholas II had desired a warm-water port on the Pacific since his accession to the throne in 1894. He achieved this ambition in March 1898 when Russia signed a 25-year lease for Port Arthur and the Liaotung Peninsula with China. Japan had previously forced China to sign over the port and its surrounding territory as part of the treaty that concluded the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895, but the Triple Intervention of France, Russia, and Germany forced them to return the port in exchange for a sizeable increase in the indemnity paid by the Chinese. Japan invested much of the indemnity money in expanding its fleet, while Russia began a major building programme to defend its newly acquired port.
Russian Shipyards were already at full capacity so the Naval Ministry decided to order ships from abroad. Specifications were issued on June 14th 1898 and a few days later the chief designer of the French Shipyard Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée proposed a design based on that of the French Battleship Jauréguiberry. The Naval Technical Committee approved the design with a few changes to which the French readily agreed. The General Admiral, Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich, selected the French design over a competing proposal from the Baltic Works. A contract was signed on July 20th 1898 at a cost of 30.28 million francs (11.355 million rubles) for delivery in 42 months.
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Here she is pre WW1............ :) DFO
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Pre-Dreadnought Battleship IRN Tsesarevich pictured at Toulon in 1903. She was built at Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée Shipyards in La Seyne-sur-Mer,Toulon..She was laid down on July 8th 1899 and launched on February 23rd 1901. She entered service in August 1903 and was assigned to the Far East Fleet.
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Here she is after being pummeled by the IJN in 1904....OWCHH! :( DFO
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