 Chesma ( Russian : Чесма , sometimes transliterated as Tchesma ) was the second ship of the Ekaterina II @-@ class battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1880s . When the ship was completed she proved to be very overweight which meant that much of her waterline armor belt was submerged . Russian companies could not produce the most advanced armour steel at the time so the armour steel had to be reduced in thickness and the armour was also designed with a shallow draft in order to compensate for her extra weight .
Chesma was completed in 1892 and was the first Russian battleship to be armed with 1