| No.48 The fleet attendance battleship "Rostislav" |
| No.48 The fleet attendance battleship "Rostislav" |
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Type: a squadron battleship
A series: military fleet
The country: Russia, 1900
Scale: 1:200
Volume: 26 sheets A4
The instruction in English
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| "Rostislav" was the seventh of the eight fleet attendance battleships, the building of which was stipulated by the twenty-year programme of creation of the Black Sea Fleet. It was planed as a type of a small ship with powerful artillery, of little displacement, good seaworthiness and reduced draught, that would allow it to operate at the coastal regions of the Black Sea. From the 1st May 1900 till 1st January 1903 the battleship was in command of the Grand Duke Aleksandr Mikhailovich Romanov. In 1905 the battleship participated in the repression of the revolt at the Black Sea Fleet, leading the shooting down of the cruiser "Ochakov" and, having shot down the torpedo boat, on which lieutenant P.P Shmidt was trying to escape. On 10 October 1907 the "Rostislav" was reclassified into a ship of the line. In May, 1909 on the way to Sevastopol, the submarine was lost under the stern of the "Rostislav". The ship took part in the World War I. On the 8th January 1917 it was included into the Red Black Sea Fleet. |
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