Armeners of the Peresvet type, with their “lightweight” main caliber artillery and reduced thickness of the armor, were designed with an eye on a cruising war against British naval communications. However, instead, they had to participate in squadron battles against full -fledged Japanese battleships, who could not fight with “facilitated” “Peresvet”, “Oslyaby” and “Victory”, and besides, they turned out to be almost the most “unmistable” ships of the Russian fleet.
The “victory” was blown up by a mine immediately behind the “Peter and Paul”, on which Admiral Makarov died. “Peresvet” managed to sit melted with merely on the first campaign, lost the commander in an unsuccessful battle in the Yellow Sea and, together with the “victory”, was shot by enemy artillery on the Port Arthur raid, he was raised, repaired and included in the Japanese fleet, and with the beginning of the First World War was issued by Russia, but along the way to his homeland was blown up by two German mines and sank nearby and sank nearby. Port Said. “Oslyaby” also received heavy lines …
Author
Peasant Vladimir Yakovlevich, Molodtsov Sergey Vladimirovich
Editor
Molodtsov Sergey Vladimirovich
Publisher
Eksmo, 2013
Series
War at sea
Genre
The history of wars
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