Victorian Era Battleships of Russia - Russian Battleship Retvizan, Ekaterina II Class Battleship, Russian Battleship Potemkin (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Russian battleship Retvizan, Ekaterina II class battleship, Russian battleship Potemkin, Russian ironclad Petr Veliky, Russian battleship Petropavlovsk, Russian battleship Sevastopol, Russian battleship Tri Sviatitelia, Russian battleship Dvenadsat Apostolov, Russian battleship Georgii Pobedonosets, Russian battleship Sinop, Russian battleship Chesma, Russian battleship Ekaterina II, Russian battleship Tsesarevich, Russian monitor Novgorod, Japanese battleship Sagami, Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr III. Excerpt: Retvizan (Russian: ) was a Russian pre-dreadnought battleship built before the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 for the Imperial Russian Navy in the United States. She was built by the William Cramp and Sons Ship & Engine Building Company of Philadelphia, although the armament was made at the Obukhov works in Saint Petersburg and shipped to America for installation. Retvizan was named after the Swedish ship of the line Rattvisa (meaning Justice) which was captured by the Russians at the Battle of Vyborg Bay in 1790. Retvizan was torpedoed during the Japanese surprise attack on Port Arthur during the night of 8-9 February 1904 and grounded in the harbor entrance when she attempted to take refuge inside as her draft had significantly deepened from all of the water she had taken aboard after the torpedo hit. She was eventually refloated and repaired by mid-June. She joined the rest of the 1st Pacific Squadron when they attempted to reach Vladivostok though the Japanese blockade on 10 August. The Japanese battle fleet engaged them in the Battle of the Yellow Sea and forced most of the Russian ships to return to Port Arthur after killing the squadron commander and damaging his flagship. She was sunk by Japanese howitzers in December after the Japanese had gained control of the heights around the harbor. The ...