do you know who built it?
The director of the Naval Ministry, Vice Admiral
Petropavlovsk-class battleship
 By 1890 the program was behind schedule and the director of the Naval Ministry, Vice Admiral , proposed that six first-class and four second-class battleships be built together with some armored coast-defense ships to make up the numbers required. The "Petropavlovsk"-class ships were designed as first-class battleships to meet his requirement for a heavily armored ship that displaced and had a speed of , a maximum draught of and a range of with good seakeeping qualities.
describe the petropavlovsk-class battleship An upper belt of armor was necessary and the weight required was gained by shortening the waterline armor belt, which left the ships' ends protected only by the sloping armor deck. Other changes included the replacement of the barbettes with turrets of the same type as used in the battleship and the substitution of QF guns for the original guns. This last change saved enough weight to permit four more six-inch guns to be added what weapons does it carry? Four 40-caliber 12-inch guns mounted in twin-gun turrets fore
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Petropavlovsk-class battleship [SEP] Background and description
Tsar Alexander III's ambitious building programme of 1882 called for construction of 16 battleships in 20 years for the Baltic Fleet. By 1890 the program was behind schedule and the director of the Naval Ministry, Vice Admiral , proposed that six first-class and four second-class battleships be built together with some armored coast-defense ships to make up the numbers required. The "Petropavlovsk"-class ships were designed as first-class battleships to meet his requirement for a heavily armored ship that displaced and had a speed of , a maximum draught of and a range of with good seakeeping qualities. The design began as an enlarged and improved version of the battleship , but with her main armament of four guns mounted in lighter barbettes rather than the heavy gun turrets of the older ship.