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Russian Ship Admiral Ushakov
Several Russian and Soviet warships were named ''Admiral Ushakov'' (''Адмирал Ушаков'') in honour of Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov: * , lead ship of her class of coastal battleships; sunk at the Battle of Tsushima The Battle of Tsushima (Japanese:対馬沖海戦, Tsushimaoki''-Kaisen'', russian: Цусимское сражение, ''Tsusimskoye srazheniye''), also known as the Battle of Tsushima Strait and the Naval Battle of Sea of Japan (Japanese: 日 ... in 1905 * , a , laid down in 1950 and scrapped in 1987 * , formerly named ''Kirov'', lead ship of her class of nuclear powered missile cruisers * , formerly named ''Besstrashny'', a , currently active in service Russian Navy ship names {{DEFAULTSORT:Admiral Ushakov, Russian Ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fyodor Ushakov
Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov ( rus, Фёдор Фёдорович Ушако́в, p=ʊʂɐˈkof; – ) was an 18th century Russian naval commander and admiral. He is notable for winning every engagement he participated in as the Admiral of the Russian fleet. Life and naval career Ushakov was born in the village of Burnakovo in the Yaroslavl gubernia, to a modest family of the minor nobility. His father, Fyodor Ignatyevich Ushakov, was a retired sergeant of the Preobrazhensky regiment of the Russian Imperial guards.Овчинников В.ДАдмирал Ф.Ф. Ушаков: архивные документы против легенд/Вестник архивиста. №2, 2012. By the time Fyodor Ushakov submitted his statement of background (''skaska'') to the military, his family had not been officially confirmed in the so-called 'dvoryanstvo', yet they surely belonged to serving gentry. In the submission Ushakov stated that he neither had a coat-of-arms, nor a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Admiral Ushakov-class Coastal Defense Ship
The ''Admiral Ushakov'' class were coastal defense battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the 1890s to counter armored ships of the Swedish Navy. All three ships were stationed in the Baltic Sea when the Russo-Japanese war began and sailed with the Baltic Fleet around the Cape of Good Hope to the Pacific. Two ships were captured by the Japanese and one was scuttled during the Battle of Tsushima. Design General characteristics They had an overall length of , a beam of , and a draft of at deep load. They displaced .Conway's, p. 181 Propulsion The ''Admiral Ushakov''s used vertical triple expansion steam engines that produced . They were fed by 8 cylindrical coal-fired boilers, except in which only had four boilers. The engines drove 2 shafts for a maximum speed of . They carried of coal at normal load and at deep load. Armament The ''Admiral Ushakov''s had four 45-caliber guns in two twin-gun turrets, mounted fore and after of the superstructure, except for , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Tsushima
The Battle of Tsushima (Japanese:対馬沖海戦, Tsushimaoki''-Kaisen'', russian: Цусимское сражение, ''Tsusimskoye srazheniye''), also known as the Battle of Tsushima Strait and the Naval Battle of Sea of Japan (Japanese: 日本海海戦, Nihonkai''-Kaisen'') in Japan, was a List of battles of the Russo-Japanese War, major naval battle fought between Russia and Japan during the Russo-Japanese War. It was naval history's first, and so far the last, decisive sea battle fought by modern steel battleship fleets and the first naval battle in which wireless telegraphy (radio) played a critically important role. It has been characterized as the "dying echo of the old era – for the last time in the history of naval warfare, Ship of the line, ships of the line of a beaten fleet surrendered on the high seas". It was fought on 27–28 May 1905 (14–15 May in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia) in the Tsushima Strait located between Korea and southern Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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