The Russian battleship Sinop (Russian: Синоп) was a battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy, being the third ship of the Ekaterina II class. She was named after the Russian victory at the Battle of Sinop in 1853.

 

IRN Sinop

History

Russian Empire

Name: Sinop (Синоп)

Namesake: Battle of Sinop

Operator: Imperial Russian Navy

Ordered: 12 July 1882

Builder: ROPiT Shipyard, Sevastopol

Cost: 3,217,500 rubles

Laid down: June 1883

Launched: 1 June 1887

Completed: 1889

Out of service: 1919

Fate: Sold for scrap 1922

General characteristics

Class and type: Ekaterina II-class battleship

Displacement: 11,310 long tons (11,491 t)

Length: 339 ft 3 in (103.4 m)

Beam: 68 ft 11 in (21.0 m)

Draft: 28 ft 3 in (8.6 m)

Installed power: 9,000 ihp (6,711 kW)

Propulsion:

2 shafts

2 vertical triple expansion steam engines

14 cylindrical boilers

Speed: 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)

Range: 2,800 nmi (5,200 km; 3,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)

Complement: 633

Armament:

As built:

3 × 2 – 12-inch (305 mm) guns

7 × 1 – 6-inch (152 mm) guns

8 × 1 – 47-millimeter (1.9 in) 5-barrel revolving Hotchkiss guns

4 × 1 – 37-millimeter (1.5 in) 5-barrel revolving Hotchkiss guns

7 × 1 – 14-inch (356 mm) torpedo tubes

After 1910 refit:

4 x 1 - 203 mm (8.0 in)/50 guns

4 x 1 - 152 mm (6.0 in)/45 canet guns

2 x 1 - 47 mm (1.9 in)/43 Hotchkiss guns

4 x 1 - 7.62/94 machine guns

Armor:

Compound armor

Belt: 6–16 in (152–406 mm)

Deck: 2.25–2.5 in (57–64 mm)

Barbette: 12 in (305 mm)

Barbette hood: 1.5 in (38 mm)

Conning tower: 9 in (229 mm)

Bulkheads: 9–10 in (229–254 mm)

The Russian battleship Sinop (Russian: Синоп) was a battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy, being the third ship of the Ekaterina II class. She was named after the Russian victory at the Battle of Sinop in 1853. The ship participated in the pursuit of the mutinous battleship Potemkin in June 1905[a] and towed her back to Sevastopol from Constanța, Romania, where Potemkin had sought asylum. Several proposals were made for Sinop's reconstruction with modern guns and better quality armor during the 1900s, but both were cancelled. She was converted to a gunnery training ship in 1910 before she became a guardship at Sevastopol and had her 12-inch (305 mm) guns removed in exchange for four single 203 mm (8.0 in)/50 guns in turrets. Sinop was refitted in 1916 with torpedo bulges to act as "mine-bumpers" for a proposed operation in the heavily mined Bosphorus. Both the Bolsheviks and the Whites captured her during the Russian Civil War after her engines were destroyed by the British in 1919. She was scrapped by the Soviets beginning in 1922.