Pre-Dreadnought Battleships: Borodino Class

[designeraccd]

Yup, coaling must have been such...uhh...fun, particularly in HOT, HUMID climes....

Here is a old Russian pre-dreadnought from the BSF that took on the GOEBEN/YAVUZ with several other oldies. IIRC she scored a hit!! Four 12" were her main weapons. DFO

In JFS scale she looks like the third pic, with her 3 funnels...

[Brian James]

Lead Ship,Pre-Dreadnought Battleship IRN Borodino pictured at Kronstadt in August 1904.
Built at New Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg in 1901 and commissioned in August 1904.She was completed after the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. Borodino was assigned to the Second Pacific Squadron sent to the Far East a few months after her completion to break the Japanese blockade of Port Arthur. The Japanese captured the port while the squadron was in transit and their destination was changed to Vladivostok.She was sunk during the Battle of Tsushima on May 27th 1905, due to devastating explosions,set off by a Japanese shell hitting a 6-inch magazine. There was only one survivor from her crew of 855 officers and enlisted men.

[designeraccd]

A few more of the Czar's latest pre-dreadnoughts of 1905........ DFO

[Brian James]

Japanese photo of the very small part of the damage to Borodino Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship IRN Oryol,captured at the Battle of Tsushima Strait on May 28th 1905.
Surrendered to the Japanese who put her into service under the name of IJNS Iwami.Reconstructed by the Japanese in 1905–1907,she was reclassified by the Imperial Japanese Navy as a Coastal Defense Ship in 1912. She participated in the Battle of Tsingtao at the beginning of World War I and supported the Japanese troops that landed in Siberia in 1918 during the Russian Civil War.She was used as a Training Ship beginning in September 1921,disarmed in 1922 to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty and sunk as a target ship two years later.

[Brian James]

Borodino Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship IRN Slava pictured at Algiers in January 1909.She was scuttled during the Battle of Moon Sound on October 17th 1917.

[designeraccd]

A beam view plus two closeups of SLAVA. Czar got a better bang for the Ruble out of this little old pre-dreadnought than all 4 of his Baltic Dreadnoughts!! DFO

[Brian James]

Russian Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Tsesarevich pictured Interned at Qingdao in 1904 showing some of the battle damage inflicted following the Battle of the Yellow Sea (Aug. 10 1904) illustrating the vulnerability of French-designed Battleships of the pre-dreadnought era.

[designeraccd]

The SLAVA still intact! DFO

[Brian James]

Lead Ship,Pre-Dreadnought Battleship IRN Borodino pictured on the ways at New Admiralty Shipyards,Saint Petersburg on August 3rd 1901.

[designeraccd]

BORODINO just after launch, and completed.....b4 the IJN ended her career......... DFO