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''Knyaz Suvorov'' ((ロシア語:Князь Суворов)) was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. Named after the 18th-century Russian general Prince (''Knyaz'') Alexander Suvorov, the ship was 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 that 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. ''Knyaz Suvorov'' was sunk during the Battle of Tsushima on 27 May 1905. During the battle, the ship fell out of the main battle line after a shell hit her bridge, killing her helmsman and wounding her captain and Rozhestvensky. She was eventually torpedoed and sunk by Japanese torpedo boats; other than the 20 wounded officers evacuated by a destroyer there were no survivors. ==Description== ''Knyaz Suvorov'' was long at the waterline and long overall, with a beam of and a draft of , more than designed. Her normal displacement was , almost more than her designed displacement of . Her intended crew consisted of 28 officers and 754 enlisted men,〔McLaughlin, p. 136〕 although she carried 928 crewmen during the Battle of Tsushima.〔 The ship was powered by two 4-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam generated by 20 Belleville boilers. The engines were rated at and designed to reach a top speed of . ''Knyaz Suvorov'', however, only reached a top speed of from during her builder's machinery trials on 9 August 1904. At deep load she carried of coal that provided her a range of at a speed of .〔McLaughlin, pp. 137, 144〕 ''Knyaz Suvorov''s 40-caliber 12-inch guns were mounted in two twin-gun turrets, one each fore and aft. They had a rate of fire of about one round per 90 seconds. Sixty rounds per gun were carried. The twelve 45-caliber guns were mounted in six electrically powered twin-gun turrets carried on the sides of the ship. They had a practical rate of fire of approximately three rounds per minute and were provided with 180 rounds per gun. Four of the twenty guns used against torpedo boats were mounted in casemates just below the forward main gun turret, two on each side. These guns were placed well above the waterline for use in any weather, unlike the remaining sixteen guns, which were mounted in casemates one deck lower and distributed over the length of the ship, close to the water. The unsuitability of the lower deck guns was graphically demonstrated when ''Knyaz Suvorov''s sister ship made a high-speed turn during her trials, heeling 15°, and began taking water through the lower casemates. Each gun had 300 rounds available. The ship also mounted twenty Hotchkiss guns for anti-torpedo boat defense. ''Knyaz Suvorov'' carried four torpedo tubes, one each above water in the bow and one in the stern with two torpedoes each, and a submerged tube on each side forward with three torpedoes each.〔McLaughlin, p. 142〕 ''Knyaz Suvorov''s waterline armor belt consisted of Krupp armor and was thick. The armor of her gun turrets had a maximum thickness of and her deck ranged from in thickness. The armored lower deck curved downwards and formed an anti-torpedo bulkhead.〔McLaughlin, pp. 136–37〕 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 Knyaz Suvorov」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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