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''Sevastopol'' ((ロシア語:Севастополь)) was the last of three ships in the of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1890s. Named for the siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War, the ship was commissioned into the First Pacific Squadron of the Russian Pacific Fleet and was stationed at Port Arthur, a Russian naval base acquired from China in 1898 as part of the Kwantung Leased Territory. One of the first ships to use Harvey nickel-steel armor and Popov radios, she displaced at full load and was long overall, and mounted a main battery of four guns in two twin turrets. She was laid down in May 1892, launched on 1 June 1895 and completed in 1899. Her sea trials lasted until 1900. ''Sevastopol'' saw service in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05. Slightly damaged during a surprise attack on Port Arthur in early February, the ship later participated in several attempts to break out from the besieged port. The most notable of these was the Battle of the Yellow Sea, where she was damaged by several shells but managed to make it back to port with the remnants of the Russian Fleet, leaving one crewman dead and 62 wounded. Immediately after the surrender of Port Arthur, ''Sevastopol'' was scuttled to prevent her capture by the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Japanese never raised her. The remains of the ship still lie outside the entrance to Port Arthur. == Design == The first design for ''Sevastopol'' and her sister ships of the was approved in January 1891. She was to be an improved version of the battleship , but with most of her armament in barbettes, including four guns. The class was designed with a displacement of at full load. She had a full waterline belt, and the upper hull featured a tumblehome. ''Imperator Nikolai I'' was chosen as a starting point for the design because of her good seakeeping and seaworthiness. Some characteristics were also copied from the and the American s, such as the flush-deck hull and ''Brennus'' high freeboard. Following a redesign of the class, ''Sevastopol'' ceased to resemble ''Imperator Nikolai I''. The armor plating was changed before construction, and plans for the armament were modified while the ship was being built. The barbettes were replaced with turrets, including wing turrets for some of the secondary guns modeled after those on ''Brennus'', with electric hoists. The propulsion was based on the machinery on . ''Sevastopol'' had Harvey nickel-steel armor imported from the United States. 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 Sevastopol (1895)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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