Japanese battleship Sagami
- Japanese battleship Sagami
. They were designed as essentially enlarged armoured cruisers, with good range and sea keeping, higher speed but weaker armour and armament then contemporary first class battleships. The "Peresviet" was one of three ships in its class: its sister ship "Oslyabya" was lost at the Battle of Tsushima, and "Pobieda" at Port Arthur.
The "Peresviet" fought in the Battle of the Yellow Sea but failed to escape and was subsequently sunk at her moorings in Port Arthur harbor by Japanese siege guns. Salvaged after the war in October 1905, she was refloated, repaired, and taken into service as the "Sagami", taking her name from the ancient Japanese province of Sagami, now a part of Kanagawa prefecture.
On August 28, 1912, the "Sagami" was re-classified as a First-class Coastal Defense Vessel.
During World War I, Japan and Russia became allies, and the "Sagami" was returned to the Russian navy on April 4, 1916, where she resumed her former name of "Peresviet". She was due to be the flagship of the Russian Arctic flotilla, but was sunk on route by mines laid by German submarine "U-73" outside Port Said, Egypt on January 4, 1917.
References
*Gibbons, Tony: "The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships and Battlecruisers"
*Burt, R.A.: "Japanese Battleships, 1897–1945"
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