Of the Russian pre-dreadnought battleships Peresvet-class. Laid down at Baltic Works, St. Petersburg, Russian on 21 February 1899, launched on 10 May 1900, building costs 10.050.000 rubles, commissioned in October 1902, sunk on 7 December 1904 off Port Arthur, after Port Arthur fell in January 1905 in Japanese waters, refloated on 17 October 1905 and commissioned in the Japanese navy as 1st class battleship and renamed Suwo on 25 October 1905, reconstructed between May 1905 and 10 October 1908 at the Yokosuka Naval Yard and of which part of her armament was removed, reclassified as coastal defence ship on 28 August 1912, used as training ship for cadets and engineers, active service in 1914, gunnery training ship since 1916, armour removed and disarmed at the Kure Naval Arsenal in April 1922 as a result of the Washington Naval Treaty and capsized on 13 July 1922. Her final faith is somehow uncertain, some sources claimed she was broken up between 1922 and 1923, but is also claimed that she was not earlier broken up at Kure as in 1946.
Displacement of 13.810 long tons/14.032 tons and as dimensions 132,4 x 21,8 c 8,0 metres or 434.5 x 71.6 x 26.3 feet. The 3 vertical triple expansion engines and 30 Belleville boilers delivered via 3 shafts 14.500 ihp allowing a speed of 18 knots and with a speed of 10 knots a range of 6.200 nautical miles. Her crew in Russian service numbered 769 men. The armament consisted of 2x2-254,cm/10” guns, 11x1-15,2cm/6” quick firing guns, 20x1-7,5cm/3 quick firing guns, 20x1-4,7cm/1.9” guns, 8x1-3,7cm/1,5” guns, 5x-38,1cm/15” torpedo tubes *3 surfaced, 2 submerged) and she could take 45 mines with her for anchorage protection. The Harvey made armour consisted of a 10,2-22,9cm/4-9” thick belt, a 5,1-7,6cm/2-3” thick deck with the gun turrets protected by 22,9cm/9”.
