Russian battleship Borodino
New Admiralty Shipyard, St. Petersburg
1903-1905
13,516 ts construction; at Tsushima: 14,151 ts
121 m
23.3 m
8.00 m
782 man
12 Belleville boilers, 2 triple-expansion steam engines 15,800 hp 2 screws
17.5 kn
2,590 sm at 10 kn
- 4 × 305-mm-L/40-Geschütze
- 12 × 152-mm-L/45-Canet-Geschütze
- 20 × 75-mm-L/40-Canet-Schnellfeuergeschütze
- 20 × 47-mm-L/43-Hotchkiss-Schnellfeuergeschütze
- 2 x 6.35 - cm -L / 19 - Baranowski Landing guns
- 4 × 381 -mm torpedo tubes
1545 ts coal
- Belt armor: 190 - 203 mm
- Main towers 249 to 254 mm
- Secondary towers: 152-203 mm
- Command status: 254-304 mm
- Main deck: 50 mm
Emperor Alexander III. ; Orel; Knyaz Suvorov; Slava
The Borodino (Russian Бородино ) was a battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy, the first of five ships of the Borodino class. Named she was after the Battle of Borodino in 1812. The ship was after a march of about 18,000 sm sunk with two sister ships on 27 May 1905 in the Battle of Tsushima.
The Borodino class
The Borodino class, based on the plans of the 1899-1901 built in France Zessarewitsch. The Russian naval command had at the conclusion of the construction contract insisted that one could build five more ships of the same kind in Russia and modify as necessary, so that they comply with the requirements of the Russian Navy. Accordingly, the ships of the Borodino class were from 1899 to 1905 built on Russian shipyards: Borodino, Imperator Alexander III, Orel, Knyaz Suvorov and Slava. .
Like the Zessarewitsch, then these ships suffered because their focus was too high, the side walls in the so-called Tumblehome design above the waterline were inside, the current in the mid-fuselage longitudinal bulkhead is a danger of capsizing conjured up, and the low belt armor was pressed at full combat load under water. The Kasemattgeschütze were so deep that they were unusable due to rough seas. Added to this was that the ships had weaker machines as the Zessarewitsch despite greater weight. All three sunken ships at Tsushima Class capsized before they sank. The ships are therefore considered by some experts to be the worst ship ever built battleships.
History
Tsushima
The Borodino in 1899, placed on the Admiralty Shipyard in St. Petersburg to Kiel. She ran in August 1901 from the pile and was completed in August 1903 and put into service with her sisters (except the unfinished Slava ) assigned to the Second Pacific Squadron under Vice Admiral Roschestwenski. Already on October 15, 1904 Roschestwenskis fleet went to the eight -month journey more than 18,000 nautical miles to East Asia.
The Borodino, under the command of Capt. Sjerebrenikow, quickly became heavily damaged in the Naval Battle of Tsushima on 27 May 1905, as she led the battle line after leaving the flagship Knyaz Suvorov. She got in the line of battle constantly from significant hits of the Japanese battle fleet.
Hit hard they swerved from the line of battle, capsized and sank. Of the entire crew only a sailor survived the sinking.