I.R.N. Zessarewitsch
1903
(Mercator M-301)
- Class: Zessarewitsch -- 1 battleship of 1898
- Displacement: 12,915t
- Dimensions: 388ft 9in oa x 76ft 1in x 26ft max
- Machinery: 20 Belleville boilers, 2-shaft VTE, 17,000ihp = 18 kts. Coal 1000/2000t
- Armor: KC. Belt 9in-5in, belt ends 2in, turrets 9in-8in, battery and casemates 5in, CT 10in
- Armament: 4-12in/40 (2x2), 12-6in/45 (6x2), 20-11pdr, 20-3pdr, 4-15in TT 2 aw 2 sub, 45 mines
- Complement: 782
- Builder: Forges et Chantiers de la MŽditerranŽe, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France
- Laid Down: 8 Jul 1899
- Launched: 23 feb 1901
- Completed: 31 Aug 1903
- Actions: Zessarewitsch was torpedoed during the Japanese surprise attack on Port Arthur and was repaired to become the flagship of RAdm Wilgelm Vitgeft in the Battle of the Yellow Sea and was interned in Tsingtau after the battle. Transferred to the Baltic Fleet and helped to suppress the Sveaborg Rebellion in mid-1906. In the Mediterranean, her crew helped survivors of the 1908 Messina earthquake in Sicily. Largely inactive during WWI, her crew joined the general mutiny of the Baltic Fleet in early 1917. Renamed Grazhdanin, the ship participated in the Battle of Moon Sound in 1917, during which she was lightly damaged. The ship was seized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution in late 1917 and decommissioned the following year. She was scrapped in 1924Đ1925.
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