Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleship

	Imperator Aleksandr II
Class overview
Name	Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleship
Operators	Russian Navy; Imperial Japanese Navy;
Preceded by	Ekaterina II class
Succeeded by	Dvenadsat Apostolov
Subclasses	Imperator Nikolai I
Cost	8,000,000+ rubles
Built	1885–1891
In commission	1891–1921
Completed	2
General characteristics Imperator Aleksandr II
Type	Battleship
Displacement	9,244 long tons (9,392 t)
Length	346 ft 6 in (105.61 m)
Beam	66 ft 11 in (20.40 m)
Draft	25 ft 9 in (7.85 m)
Installed power	8,289 ihp (6,181 kW)
Propulsion	2 shaft vertical compound steam engines, 12 cylindrical boilers
Speed	15.27 knots (28.28 km/h; 17.57 mph)
Range	4,440 nautical miles (8,223 km) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9 mph)
Complement	616
Armament	1 × 2 – 12-inch (305 mm) guns; 4 × 1 – 9-inch (229 mm) guns; 8 × 1 – 6-inch (152 mm) guns; 10 × 1 – 47-millimeter (1.9 in) Hotchkiss revolving cannon; 10 × 1 – 37-millimeter (1.5 in) Hotchkiss revolving cannon; 5 × 1 – 15-inch (381 mm) torpedo tubes;
Armor	Compound armor; Belt: 4–14 in (102–356 mm); Deck: 2.5 in (64 mm); Barbette: 10 in (254 mm); Barbette hood: 3 in (76 mm); Conning tower: 8 in (203 mm); Bulkheads: 6 in (152 mm);

The Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleships were two battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1880s. They were intended to counter the small armored ships of the other Baltic powers. Construction was very prolonged and the ships were virtually obsolescent when completed. They were optimized for ramming.

Imperator Aleksandr II served in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas before becoming a gunnery training ship in 1904, but she was inactive during World War I before joining the Bolsheviks in 1917. She was sold for scrap in 1922. Imperator Nikolai I served in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas as well as the Pacific Ocean during the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War. She surrendered after the Battle of Tsushima in 1905 and was commissioned in the Imperial Japanese Navy before she was sunk as a target in 1915.

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