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''Peresvet'' ((ロシア語:Пересвет)) was the lead ship of the three pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century. The ship was transferred to the Pacific Squadron upon completion and based at Port Arthur from 1903. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, she participated in the Battle of Port Arthur and was seriously damaged during the Battle of the Yellow Sea and again in the Siege of Port Arthur. The ship was scuttled before the Russians surrendered, then salvaged by the Japanese and placed into service with the name . Partially rearmed, ''Sagami'' was reclassified by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as a coastal defense ship in 1912. In 1916, the Japanese sold her to the Russians, their allies since the beginning of World War I. En route to the White Sea in early 1917, she sank off Port Said, Egypt, after striking mines laid by a German submarine. ==Design and description== The design of the ''Peresvet'' class was inspired by the British second-class battleships of the . The British ships were intended to defeat commerce-raiding armored cruisers like the Russian ships and , and the ''Peresvet'' class was designed to support their armored cruisers. This role placed a premium on high speed and long range at the expense of heavy armament and armor.〔McLaughlin 2003, p. 108〕 ''Peresvet'' was long overall, and had a beam of and a draft of . Designed to displace , she was almost overweight and displaced . Her crew consisted of 27 officers and 744 enlisted men. The ship was powered by three vertical triple-expansion steam engines using steam generated by 30 Belleville boilers. The engines were rated at and designed to reach a top speed of . ''Peresvet'', however, reached a top speed of from during her sea trials in November 1899. She carried a maximum of of coal, which allowed her to steam for at a speed of .〔McLaughlin 2003, pp. 107–08, 114〕 The ship's main battery consisted of four guns mounted in two twin-gun turrets, one forward and one aft of the superstructure. The secondary armament consisted of eleven Canet quick-firing (QF) guns, mounted in casemates on the sides of the hull and in the bow, underneath the forecastle. Several smaller guns were carried for defense against torpedo boats. These included twenty QF guns, twenty Hotchkiss guns and eight guns. She was also armed with five torpedo tubes, three above water and two submerged. The ship carried 45 mines to be used to protect her anchorage. ''Peresvet''s waterline armor belt consisted of Harvey armor and was thick. The Krupp cemented armor of her gun turrets had a maximum thickness of and her deck ranged from in thickness.〔McLaughlin 2003, pp. 107–08, 112–14〕 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 Peresvet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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