Lewin of Greenwich Naval History & Forum

Borodino Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Slava pictured at Toulon c1905....Built at Baltic Shipyards, St Petersburg in 1903 she was the last of the five Borodino Class Battleships. Completed too late to participate in the Battle of Tsushima during the Russo-Japanese War, she survived while all of her sister ships were either sunk during the battle or surrendered to the Imperial Japanese Navy....Serving in the Baltic Sea during World War I, Slava was the largest ship of the Russian Gulf of Riga Squadron that fought the German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Gulf of Riga in August 1915. She repeatedly bombarded German positions and troops for the rest of 1915 and during 1916. During the Battle of Moon Sound in 1917, Slava was badly damaged by the German Dreadnought SMS König, significantly increasing her draft. The shallow channel made it impossible to escape and she was scuttled in the Moon Sound Strait between the island of Muhu and the mainland. The Estonians scrapped her during the 1930s.

Borodino Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Knyaz Suvorov pictured on her launch day at Baltic Works Shipyards, Saint Petersburg on September 25th 1902....Completed after the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, she became the flagship of Vice Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, Commander of the Second Pacific Squadron. The Squadron was 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. During the Battle of Tsushima on May 27th 1905, she fell out of the battle line after a shell hit her bridge, killing her helmsman and wounding her captain and Rozhestvensky. Knyaz Suvorov was eventually torpedoed and sunk by Japanese Torpedo Boats; other than 20 wounded officers evacuated by the Destroyer Buinyi, there were no survivors of the 928 crew aboard.

Borodino Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Slava pictured trapped in ice on the Porkkalnniemi Peninsula, Gulf of Finland in 1912.

Here is one of the class fitting out........ DFO

Borodino Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Slava pictured c1907.

Borodino Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Slava pictured at Naples in 1908 and loading one of her 15 inch torpedoes. Completed at Baltic Shipyards in 1905, too late to participate in the Battle of Tsushima during the Russo-Japanese War, she survived while all of her sister ships were either sunk during the battle or surrendered to the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Serving in the Baltic Sea during World War I, Slava was the largest ship of the Russian Gulf of Riga Squadron that fought the German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Gulf of Riga in August 1915. She repeatedly bombarded German positions and troops for the rest of 1915 and during 1916. During the Battle of Moon Sound in 1917, Slava was badly damaged by the German Dreadnought SMS König, significantly increasing her draft. The shallow channel made it impossible to escape and she was scuttled in Moon Sound Strait between the island of Muhu (Moon) and the mainland. The Estonians scrapped her during the 1930s.