Ekaterina II-class battleship

The Ekaterina II class were a class of four battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1880s; the first such ships built for the Black Sea Fleet. Their design was highly unusual in having the main guns on three barbettes grouped in a triangle around a central armored redoubt, two side-by-side forward and one on the centerline aft. This was intended to maximize their firepower forward, both when operating in the narrow waters of the Bosphorus and when ramming. Construction was slow because they were the largest warships built until then in the Black Sea, and the shipyards had to be upgraded to handle them.

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1886  Wikimedia, Wikidata
4 produced, 
battleship, Wrangel's Fleet, Sevastopol Shipyard, Russian Navy, Imperial Russian Navy, 

Chesma, Dvenadsat Apostolov, Ekaterina II, Georgii Pobedonosets, Sinop, 

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  Chesma ⓘ
  1886 Ekaterina II-class battleship

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  Georgii Pobedonosets ⓘ
  1892 Ekaterina II-class battleship

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  Sinop ⓘ
  1887 Ekaterina II-class battleship

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  Ekaterina II ⓘ
  1886 Ekaterina II-class battleship

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Ekaterina II class battleship diagrams Brasseys 1896

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Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
object	watercraft		Chesma	ironclad warship, Ekaterina II-class battleship	Wikidata
object	watercraft		Georgii Pobedonosets	Ekaterina II-class battleship, ironclad warship	Wikidata
object	watercraft		Sinop	Ekaterina II-class battleship, ironclad warship	Wikidata
site	shipwreck		Ekaterina II	sunken vessel, Ekaterina II-class battleship, ironclad warship	Wikidata
commons	image		Ekaterina II class battleship diagrams Brasseys 1896		Commons
commons	image		EkaterinaII1902		Commons