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''Georgii Pobedonosets'' ((ロシア語:Георгий Победоносец) Saint George the Victorious) was a battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy, the fourth and final ship of the . She was, however, only a half-sister to the others as her armor scheme was different and she was built much later than the earlier ships. She participated in the pursuit of the mutinous battleship in June 1905,〔All dates used in this article are New Style〕 but her crew mutinied themselves. However, loyal crew members regained control of the ship the next day and they ran her aground when ''Potemkin'' threatened to fire on her if she left Odessa harbor. She was relegated to second-line duties in 1908. She fired on during her bombardment of Sevastopol in 1914, but spent most of the war serving as a headquarters ship in Sevastopol. She was captured by both sides during the Russian Civil War, but ended up being towed to Bizerte by the fleeing White Russians where she was eventually scrapped. ==Design and development== ''Georgii Pobedonosets'' was originally intended as a version of rearmed with three and four guns, but this changed when the decision was made to provide her with three twin 12-inch turrets rather than the barbettes used by her sisters. The turrets were significantly heavier than the barbette mountings so the armour scheme was revised in compensation. However this revised design was still deemed overweight and rejected. The Naval Ministry held a competition for a replacement, but these were rejected by the Naval Technical Committee in turn. So a modified version of ''Sinop'', with barbettes, was chosen again as the most readily available choice. The height of her armour was lowered to reduce the overweight condition of her half-sisters. Other changes were made while building, but they came early in the process and did not seriously delay her completion past her contractual date of 13 September 1893. These changes included smaller mountings for her main guns that eliminated the sponsons needed in her sisters for the forward barbettes, the substitution of 35-calibre guns for the older 30-calibre guns and steel armor imported from Schnider et Cie of France replaced the compound armour used in her half-sisters.〔McLaughlin, p. 61〕 ''Georgii Pobedonosets'' was long at the waterline and long overall. She had a beam of and a draft of . She displaced at load, over more than her designed displacement of .〔McLaughlin, p. 60〕 She had two 3-cylinder vertical triple expansion steam engines driving screw propellers in diameter. Sixteen cylindrical boilers provided steam to the engines. The engines and boilers were both imported from Maudslay and Sons of the United Kingdom and were overweight. The engines had a total designed output of , but they only produced on trials and gave a top speed of . At full load she carried of coal that provided her a range of at a speed of and at .〔McLaughlin, pp. 60, 63–64〕 Her main armament consisted of three pairs of Obukhov Model 1886 35-calibre guns mounted in two twin barbette mounts side by side forward and one aft of the superstructure. They had a maximum elevation of 15° and could depress to −2°. Each of the forward mounts could traverse 30° across the bow and 35° abaft the beam, or a total of 155°. The rear mount could traverse 202°. Their rate of fire was one round every four minutes, fifty seconds, including training time.〔McLaughlin, pp. 61, 63〕 They fired a shell at a muzzle velocity of to a range of at maximum elevation. They also had a 'heavy' shell available that weighed that was fired at a velocity of although the range is not available.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Russian 12"/35 (30.5 cm) Pattern 1886 )〕 The seven Model 1877 35-calibre guns were mounted on broadside pivot mounts in hull embrasures, except for one gun mounted in the stern in the hull. The eight single-barrelled Hotchkiss guns were mounted on the battery deck to defend the ship against torpedo boats. Ten Hotchkiss guns were mounted in the fighting top. She carried seven above-water torpedo tubes, three tubes on each broadside and a tube in the stern.〔McLaughlin, pp. 27, 63〕 In contrast to her half-sisters the armour used on ''Georgii Pobedonosets'' was steel. The belt armor had a maximum thickness of which reduced, in steps, down to forward and down to aft. Its height was reduced by in comparison to the other ships of the class to to reduce weight. However this left only six inches of her belt above her load waterline as she was still overweight, a decrease of from her half-sisters. The deck armour was outside the citadel and reduced to over it.〔McLaughlin, p. 63〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Russian battleship Georgii Pobedonosets」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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