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Danish Coastal Defense Ship HDMS Herluf Trolle (1899)

Herluf Trolle (1899)

Danish Coastal Defense Ship HDMS Herluf Trolle (1899)

HDMS Herluf Trolle (1899) was a Danish coastal defense ship. The first of her class of three ships (including Olfert Fischer and Peder Skram), she was launched on 2 September 1899 and commissioned on 7 June 1901.

She had an uneventful career, as Denmark remained neutral throughout World War One. Herluf Trolle and her sisters patrolled Denmark’s coast, enforcing her neutrality. Post war, with reduced naval budgets, she was sold for scrap in 1934.

Displacement3,494 long tons (3,550 t)
Length82.88 m (271 ft 11 in) pp
Beam15.06 m (49 ft 5 in)
Draft4.93 m (16 ft 2 in)
Installed power6 × water-tube boilers
4,200 ihp (3,100 kW)
Propulsion2 × triple-expansion engines
2 × screw propellers
Speed15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph)
Complement254
Armament2 × 240 mm (9.4 in) guns
4 × 150 mm (5.9 in) guns
10 × 6-pounder guns
3 × 1-pounder Hotchkiss revolver cannon
8 × 1-pounder automatic guns
3 × 457 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes
ArmorBelt armor: 178 to 203 mm (7 to 8 in)
Gun turrets: 170 to 190 mm (6.5 to 7.5 in)

Russian Battleship Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya

Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya on trials

Russian Battleship Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya

Commissioned on 18 October 1915, Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya, was the second of the three Imperatritsa Mariya-class dreadnoughts built for the Imperial Russian Navy. Her two sister were Imperatritsa Mariya and Imperator Aleksandr III.

During the First World War, she engaged the Turkish battlecruiser Yavûz Sultân Selîm (ex-German Goeben) once, but only inflicted splinter damage while taking no damage herself. The majority of her service saw her covering the actions of smaller vessels during which she did not fire her armament apart from briefly engaging the Turkish cruiser Midilli on 25 June 1917.

Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya was renamed Svobodnaya Rossiya (Free Russia) after the February Revolution of 1917. The ship sailed from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk on 30 April 1918 as German troops approached the city. Svobodnaya Rossiya was scuttled on 19 June by four torpedoes fired by the destroyer Kerch in Novorossiysk harbor to prevent her from being turned over to the Germans as required by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. She was partially salvage in the 1920s.

Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya Under Construction

Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya In Service

U.S. Crane Ship No. 1 Kearsarge

U.S. Crane Ship (AB-1) at sea, May 1944

U.S. Crane Ship No. 1 Kearsarge

The US Navy pre-dreadnought battleship USS Kearsarge BB-5 was decommissioned in May 1920, Kearsarge and converted into a crane ship. Originally given hull classification IX-16 on 17 July 1920, this was changed to AB-1 on 5 August. Her turrets, superstructure, and armor were removed, and replaced by a large revolving crane with a lifting capacity of 250 tons (230 tonnes), as well as 10-foot (3.0 m) blisters, which improved her stability.

On 6 November 1941, Kearsarge was renamed Crane Ship No. 1, allowing her name to be reused (originally for CV-12, which was later changed to Hornet and then for Kearsarge CV-33). During the Second World War, she was used to facilitate the movement and placement of heavy equipment such as guns, turrets, and armor for ships including the Indiana, Alabama, Savannah, Chicago, and Pennsylvania.

In 1945, after being towed to the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, she worked on the Essex-Class carriers Hornet and Boxer, as well as the Saratoga.

She was sold for scrap on 9 August 1955.