Russian battleship Tri Sviatitelia

Tri Sviatitelia at anchor
Class overview
Name	Tri Sviatitelia
Operators	Imperial Russian Navy
Preceded by	Navarin
Succeeded by	Sissoi Veliky
Built	1891–1896
In commission	1896–1923
Completed	1
Scrapped	1
History
Russian Empire
Name	Tri Sviatitelia (Russian: Три Святителя)
Namesake	Three Holy Hierarchs
Operator	Imperial Russian Navy
Builder	Nikolayev Dockyard
Laid down	15 August 1891[Note 1]
Launched	12 November 1893
Completed	1896
Stricken	21 November 1925
Fate	Scrapped, 1923
General characteristics
Type	Pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement	13,318 long tons (13,532 t)
Length	378 ft (115.2 m)
Beam	73 ft 3 in (22.3 m)
Draught	28 ft 6 in (8.7 m)
Installed power	14 fire-tube boilers 10,600 ihp (7,904 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 triple expansion steam engines
Speed	16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph)
Range	2,250 nmi (4,170 km; 2,590 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	730
Armament	2 × twin 12 in (305 mm) guns 8 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns 4 × single 4.7 in (119 mm) guns 10 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 40 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) guns 6 × 15 in (381 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour	Harvey armour Belt: 16–18 in (406–457 mm) Deck: 2–3 in (51–76 mm) Turrets: 16 in (406 mm) Conning tower: 12 in (305 mm) Bulkheads: 14–16 in (356–406 mm)

Tri Sviatitelia (Russian: Три Святителя, meaning the Three Holy Hierarchs) was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the 1890s. She served with the Black Sea Fleet and was flagship of the forces pursuing the mutinous battleship Potemkin in June 1905. During World War I the ship encountered the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben (formally Yavuz Sultan Selim) twice, but never hit the German ship, nor was she damaged by her. From 1915 onward she was relegated to the coast bombardment role as she was the oldest battleship in the fleet. Tri Sviatitelia was refitting in Sevastopol when the February Revolution of 1917 began and she was never operational afterwards.

Tri Sviatitelia was captured when the Germans took the city in May 1918 and was turned over to the Allies after the Armistice in November 1918. Her engines were destroyed in 1919 by the British when they withdrew from Sevastopol to prevent the advancing Bolsheviks from using her against the White Russians. She was abandoned when the Whites evacuated the Crimea in 1920 and was scrapped in 1923.
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