Russian battleship Pobeda

Pobeda at anchor, probably about March 1904
History
Russian Empire
Name	Pobeda
Namesake	Victory
Ordered	26 April 1898[Note 1]
Builder	Baltic Works, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Cost	10,050,000 rubles
Laid down	21 February 1899
Launched	10 May 1900
In service	October 1902
Fate	Sunk, 7 December 1904
Japan
Name	Suwo
Namesake	Suō Province
Acquired	Refloated, 17 October 1905
Commissioned	October 1908
Stricken	1922
Fate	Probably scrapped, 1922–23
General characteristics
Class and type	Peresvet-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement	13,320 long tons (13,534 t)
Length	434 ft 5 in (132.4 m)
Draft	26 ft 3 in (8 m)
Installed power	30 Belleville boilers 14,500 ihp (10,813 kW)
Propulsion	3 shafts; 3 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Range	6,200 nmi (11,500 km; 7,100 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	27 officers, 744 men
Armament	As built: 2 × twin 10 in (254 mm) guns 11 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns 20 × single 75 mm (3 in) guns 20 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 8 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) guns 5 × 15 in (381 mm) torpedo tubes 45 mines As Sowu: 2 × twin 10 in guns 10 × single 6 in guns 16 × single 12 pdr (3 in (76 mm)) guns 2 × 18 in (450 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor	Belt: 4–9 inches (102–229 mm) Deck: 2–3 inches (51–76 mm) Turrets: 9 inches (229 mm)

Pobeda (Russian: Победа, lit. 'Victory') was the last of the three Peresvet-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century. The ship was assigned to the Pacific Squadron upon completion and based at Port Arthur from 1903. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, she participated in the battles of Port Arthur and the Yellow Sea. Having escaped serious damage in these engagements, Pobeda was sunk by gunfire during the siege of Port Arthur, and then salvaged by the Japanese and placed into service under the name Suwo (周防).

Rearmed and re-boilered by the Japanese, Suwo was reclassified by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as a coastal defense ship in 1908 and served as a training ship for several years. She was the flagship of the Japanese squadron that participated in the siege of Qingdao at the beginning of World War I and continued in that role until she became a gunnery training ship in 1917. The ship was disarmed in 1922 to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty and probably scrapped around that time.
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