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} |} The Russian battleship ''Sinop'' (Russian: Синоп) was a battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy, being the third ship of the . She was named after the Russian victory at the Battle of Sinop in 1853. The ship participated in the pursuit of the mutinous battleship in June 1905〔 and towed her back to Sevastopol from Constanța, Romania, where ''Potemkin'' had sought asylum. Several proposals were made for ''Sinop''s reconstruction with modern guns and better quality armor during the 1900s, but both were cancelled. She was converted to a gunnery training ship in 1910 before she became a guardship at Sevastopol and had her guns removed in exchange for four single guns in turrets. ''Sinop'' was refitted in 1916 with torpedo bulges to act as "mine-bumpers" for a proposed operation in the heavily mined Bosphorus. Both the Bolsheviks and the Whites captured her during the Russian Civil War after her engines were destroyed by the British in 1919. She was scrapped by the Soviets beginning in 1922. == Design and development == ''Sinop'' was long at the waterline and long overall. She had a beam of and a draft of more than than designed. Her displacement was at load, over more than her designed displacement of .〔McLaughlin, p. 21〕 ''Sinop'' was the first large warship to use vertical triple expansion steam engines,〔McLaughlin, p. 29〕 having two 3-cylinder engines imported from Napier & Son of the United Kingdom. Fourteen cylindrical boilers provided steam to the engines. 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. 21, 29–30〕 She differed from her sisters mainly in the design of her gun mounts. ''Sinop'' had six Obukhov Model 1877 30-caliber guns mounted in twin barbette mounts, two forward, side by side, and one aft. 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, thirty-five seconds, including training time. Sixty rounds per gun were carried. The main guns were mounted very low, (only ) above the main deck, and caused extensive damage to the deck when fired over the bow or stern. The seven Model 1877 35-caliber guns were mounted on broadside pivot mounts in hull embrasures, except for one gun mounted in the stern in the hull. Six of the eight five-barreled revolving Hotchkiss guns were mounted in small sponsons that projected from the hull with the aftermost pair mounted in hull embrasures to defend the ship against torpedo boats. Four five-barreled revolving Hotchkiss guns were mounted in the fighting top. She carried seven above-water torpedo tubes, one tube forward on each side, able to bear on forward targets, two other tubes were mounted on each broadside fore and aft of the central citadel; the seventh tube was in the stern.〔McLaughlin, pp. 26–28〕 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 Sinop」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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