Russian battleship Slava

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History
Name	Slava
Builder	Baltic Shipyard, Saint Petersburg
Laid down	October 1902
Launched	August 1903
Commissioned	June 1905
Fate	Scuttled near the isle of Muhu, 17 October 1917
General characteristics
Class and type	Borodino-class battleship
Displacement	13,516 long tons (13,733 t) standard 15,275 long tons (15,520 t) full load
Length	121 m (397 ft)
Beam	23.2 m (76 ft)
Draught	8.9 m (29 ft)
Propulsion	2 shafts, Reciprocating vertical triple-expansion engines 20 boilers 15,800 ihp (11,800 kW)
Speed	18 knots (21 mph; 33 km/h)
Complement	796
Armament	• 4 × 305 mm (12 in) guns (2×2) • 12 × 152 mm (6 in) guns (6×2) • 20 × 75 mm (3 in) guns (20×1) • 20 × 47 mm (2 in) guns (20×1) • 4 × 381 mm (15 in) torpedo tubes
Armour	Krupp armour Belt: 193 mm (7.6 in) Turrets: 254 mm (10 in) max Deck: 51 mm (2 in) Anti-torpedo bulkhead: 25 mm (1 in)

The Slava (Слава, Russian: "Glory") was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships. Commissioned too late to participate in the key naval Battle of Tsushima of the Russo-Japanese War, she survived while three of her sister ships were sunk during the battle and one was surrendered to the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Slava served in the Baltic during World War I and was engaged during the attack of the German High Seas Fleet against a squadron of the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Battle of the Gulf of Riga in August 1915. The Slava, sustaining heavy damage from the German dreadnought SMS König during the Battle of Moon Sound, began taking water which lowered her waterline. The channel being relatively shallow it made it impossible to escape, and she was eventually scuttled in the Moon Sound straight between the isle of Muhu (Moon) and the mainland.

Slava scuttled