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Saturday 19 August 2017

Russian coastal defence ship General Admiral Graf Apraksin 1894-1905 and Japanese coastal defence ship 2nd class Okinoshima 1905-1939


Laid down by New Admiralty Works, St. Petersburg, Russia on 24 October 1894, launched on 12 May 1896, commissioned in 1899, captured by Japan on 28 May 1905, commissioned in Japanese navy as Okinoshima on 6 June 1905, decommissioned and reclassified as submarine tender on 1 April 1922 and broken up in September 1939.

Of the Admiral Ushakov-class consisting of the Admiral Ushakov, General Admiral Apraksin and Admiral Senyavin, preceded by the Gangut which was a smaller version of the Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleships. Displacement 4.232 (normal)-4.339 (maximum) tons and as dimensions 84,6 (waterline) x 15,88 x 5,49 metres or 277.7 x 52.1 x 18.0 feet. The machinery consisted of 2 shaft vertical triple expansion steam engines and 8 boilers supplying 5.250 shp allowing a speed of 16 knots. With a speed of 10 knots and the coal bunker capacity was the range 3.000 nautical miles. Her crew numbered 406 men. Original armament consisted of 1x2&1x1-24,5cm/10” guns, 4x1-12.7cm/4.7” guns, 10-4,7cm/1.9” guns, 12-3,7cm/1.5” guns and 4-45cm/18” torpedo tubes and in Japanese service 3-25,4cm/10” guns, 6-15,2cm/6” guns and 2-4,7cm/1.9” Hotchkiss guns. The armament consisted of a 25cm/9.8” thick belt, 7,5cm/3” thick deck and 20cm/7.9” for the turrets.