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The Peresvet class was a group of three pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy around the end of the 19th century. All three ships were lost during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905; Peresvet and Pobeda participated in the battles of Port Arthur and the Yellow Sea and were sunk or scuttled during the Siege of Port Arthur. Oslyabya sailed to the Far East with the Second Pacific Squadron to relieve the Russian forces blockaded in Port Arthur and was sunk at the Battle of Tsushima with the loss of over half of the crew. Peresvet and Pobeda were salvaged after the Japanese captured Port Arthur. Peresvet was sold back to the Russians during World War I, and sank after hitting German mines in the Mediterranean in early 1917. Pobeda, renamed Suwo, remained in Japanese service and participated in the Siege of Tsingtao in late 1914. The vessel became a gunnery training ship in 1917 and was probably scrapped around 1922. (Full article...)
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Hi Sturm and anyone else interested: a draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:10, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
- I think that this works.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 11:11, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
- Cheers. I have repiped "scuttled" to avoid the redirect. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:36, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, that's one that I rarely remember, probably because scuttling is much less common than scuttled.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 13:40, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
- Cheers. I have repiped "scuttled" to avoid the redirect. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:36, 2 February 2020 (UTC)