Russian battleship Peresvet

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Peresvet (Russian: Пересвет) is the capital ship of three Peresvet-class dreadnought warships built for the Russian Imperial Navy at the end of the 19th century. After completion, the ship was transferred to the Pacific Squadron and stationed in Port Arthur in 1903. In the Russo-Japanese War from 1904 to 1905, she participated in the Battle of Port Arthur and was severely damaged again in the Battle of the Yellow Sea. Surrounded by Port Arthur. Before the Russians surrendered, the ship was destroyed, then salvaged by the Japanese and put into service under the name Sagami.

Sagami was partially reinstalled and reclassified as a coastal defense ship by the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1912. In 1916, Japan sold it to the Russians, who had been allies since the beginning of the First World War. In early 1917, after hitting a landmine planted by a German submarine, she sank from Port Said in Egypt.

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