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''Imperator Aleksandr III'' (''Emperor Alexander III'') was the third, and last, ship of the dreadnoughts of the Imperial Russian Navy. She was begun before World War I, completed in 1917 and saw service with the Black Sea Fleet. She was renamed '' Volia'' or ''Volya'' ((ロシア語:Вóля), ''Freedom'') before her completion and then ''General Alekseyev'' ((ロシア語:Генерал Алексеев)) in 1920. The ship did not take part in operations during World War I because her sister ships were given a higher priority for completion. She was delivered in 1917, but the disruptions of the February Revolution rendered the Black Sea Fleet ineffective and she saw no combat. ''Volia'' was surrendered to the Germans in 1918, but they were forced to turn her over to the British by the terms of the Armistice. The British turned her over to the White Russians in 1919 and they used her to help evacuate the Crimea in 1920. She was interned in Bizerte by the French and ultimately scrapped by them in 1936 to pay her docking fees. Her guns were put into storage and were later used by the Germans and Finns for coastal artillery during World War II. The Finns and the Soviets continued to use them throughout the Cold War. ==Description== ''Imperator Aleksandr III'' was long at the waterline. She had a beam of and a draft of . Her displacement was at load, more than her designed displacement of .〔McLaughlin, p. 228〕 ''Imperatritsa Mariya'' had proved to be very bow heavy in service and tended to ship large amounts of water through her forward casemates.〔Gardiner & Gray, p. 303〕 ''Imperator Aleksandr III''s forward pair of 130 mm guns were removed before she was completed in an attempt to compensate for her trim.〔McLaughlin, p. 237〕 ''Imperator Aleksandr III'' was fitted with four Parsons-type steam turbines imported from John Brown & Company of the United Kingdom. They were designed for a total of , but produced on trials. 20 mixed-firing triangular Yarrow water-tube boilers powered the turbines with a working pressure of . Her designed speed was . Her maximum coal capacity was plus of fuel oil which gave her a range of at . All of her electrical power was generated by three Curtis 360-kilowatt main turbo generators and two 200-kilowatt auxiliary units.〔McLaughlin, pp. 229, 235–37〕 The ship's main armament consisted of a dozen 52-calibre guns mounted in four triple turrets distributed the length of the ship. Her secondary armament consisted of eighteen B7 Pattern 1913 55-calibre guns mounted in casemates. They were arranged in two groups, five guns per side from the forward turret to the rear funnel and the remaining four clustered around the rear turret. She was fitted with four 38-calibre 'Lender' anti-aircraft guns, two each mounted on the roof of the fore and aft turrets. Four submerged torpedo tubes were mounted, two tubes on each broadside abaft the forward magazine.〔McLaughlin, pp. 233–34〕 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 Imperator Aleksandr III」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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