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Russian Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Tsesarevich pictured Interned at Qingdao in 1904 showing the battle damage inflicted following the Battle of the Yellow Sea (August 10th 1904) illustrating the vulnerability of French-designed Battleships of the Pre-Dreadnought era. Not only are the funnels peppered with shot and ripped apart by shellfire impairing draft to the boilers there are multiple shell-holes in the unarmoured upper works of the hull and a direct hit on the bridge.She attempted to head north to Vladivostok in the dark, but her damaged funnels greatly increased her coal consumption and reduced her speed to only 6 knots so that she was forced to head for the German treaty port of Qingdao instead with three Destroyers for escort. Upon arrival the following day, Tsesarevich and her companions were interned and disarmed. The ship had been hit by thirteen 12-inch and two 8-inch shells that killed 12 and wounded 47 members of her crew.

Repair time at Quingdao! DFO

Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Tsesarevich pictured at Port Arthur c1904...Built at Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer and commissioned in 1903. 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, the ship 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, the ship participated in the Battle of Moon Sound in 1917, during which she was lightly damaged. The ship was seized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution in late 1917 and decommissioned the following year. Grazhdanin was scrapped in 1924–1925.

Battered an bruised! Repair time.......DFO

Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Tsesarevich pictured in April 1904, at Lüshun Port undergoing running repairs, (which lasted 4 months) to her Krupp cellular armour plating caused by a Japanese torpedo.

Lead Ship, Armoured Cruiser Bayan pictured with Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Tsesarevich at Port Arthur Naval Base on November 29th 1903.

The damaged Russian Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Tsesarevich pictured lying at Kau Yi Chau Island, west of Hong Kong in 1905.