Russian Battleship Slava
Launched on 29 October 1903, Slava was a Borodino-class battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy. Not completed until October 1905, she was too late to be included in the ships sent to relieve the siege of Port Arthur, hence missing the Battle of Tsushima. She therefore avoided the fate of her four sisters, three of which were sunk and the other captured by Japan.
During World War One, Slava served in the Baltic. On the 8th of August 1915, the Germans started clearing the mines in the Irbe Strait. Slava sortied and fired on the minesweepers, forcing them to retire. A later attempt by the Germans was accompanied by two dreadnought battleships (SMS Nassau and Posen) resulted in damage to Slava forcing her to retire.
She spent the rest of 1915 supporting Russian troops. In the summer of 1916, she resumed her support of the army, and on 12 September 1916 became the subject of the first attack by torpedo bombers against a moving battleship. All of the torpedoes missed.
During the Battle of Moon Sound, Slava was severely damaged by the German battleship König. She was ordered to be scuttled to block a channel, but instead ran around where one of her 12-inch magazines exploded. Russian destroyers fired torpedoes at her to ensure her destruction. Only one of the six fired worked. The wreck was scrapped by the Estonians in 1935.
| Class and type | Borodino-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement | 14,415 long tons (14,646 t) (normal) 15,275 long tons (15,520 t) full load |
| Length | 397 ft 3 in (121.1 m) |
| Beam | 76 ft 1 in (23.2 m) |
| Draft | 29 ft 2 in (8.9 m) |
| Installed power | 15,800 ihp (11,800 kW)20 water-tube boilers |
| Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 vertical triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph) |
| Range | 2,590 nmi (4,800 km; 2,980 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 846 |
| Armament | 2 × twin 12-inch (305 mm) guns 6 × twin 6-inch (152 mm) guns 20 × single 75-millimeter (3.0 in) guns 4 × single 47-millimeter (1.9 in) saluting guns 4 × 15-inch (381 mm) torpedo tubes |
| Armor | Krupp armor Waterline belt: 145–194 mm (5.7–7.6 in) Deck: 25.4–51 mm (1–2 in) Turrets: 254 mm (10.0 in) Barbettes: 178–229 mm (7–9 in) Conning tower: 203 mm (8.0 in) |
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