Built at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg. Entered service in 1896 year, but the tests continued until the end 1897 of the year. AT 1904 , as part of a separate detachment of Rear Admiral H. AND. Nebogatov ship has 12 000-mile passage after the 2 nd Pacific Squadron. In the battle of Tsushima 14 May 1905 the ship was hit by Japanese shells in the area of waterline, with the result that it was flooded all bow branch, speed dropped to 5 knots, and the battleship became greatly lag behind the squadron.
The next day, "Admiral Ushakov" was caught by Japanese cruisers. After unequal battle, flooded crew. Instead of bronenostsem destruction 94 crew member, including the captain commander 1 The rank. n. Miklouha.
It was built two similar ship – “Admiral Senyavin”, "General-Admiral Apraksin".
The performance characteristics of the battleship "Admiral Ushakov"
Displacement | 4648 t |
dimensions | Length – 86,4 m Width – 15,9 m Draft – 6 m |
The power of steam engines | 5000 l. from. |
Speed | 16 knots |
armor | board 152-254 mm tower 178 mm deck 25-51 mm deckhouse 178 mm |
Crew | 422 people. |
weaponry | 4h254 mm, 4x 120-mm guns, 6h47 mm, 18×37-mm rapid-fire guns Hotchkiss, four torpedo tubes |
Photo Armadillo «Admiral Ushakov»