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List of ships of the line of Russia

This is a list of Russian sail battleships of the period 1668-1860:
The format is: Name, number of guns (rank/real amount), launch year (A = built in Arkhangelsk), fate (service = combat service, BU = broken up)

Russian-built battleships

Early Russian Ships of the Line

  • Oriol 22 (1668, Caspian Sea) - Captured and damaged by Razin's rebels 1670. Considered as the first Russian European-type large ship of war and by tradition related to the line-of-battleships.


Battleships of the Azov Fleet (1696-1711) of Peter the Great

  • Apostol Piotr 36 (1696) (sailing & rowing) - Participated in the second Azov campaign (1696), delivered to Turkey 1711
  • Apostol Pavel 36 (1696) (sailing & rowing) - Delivered to Turkey 1711


  • Kolokol (Klok) 46 (1697) - BU 1710
  • Liliya 36 (1699) - BU 1710
  • Bababan (Trummel) 36 (1699) - BU 1710
  • Tri Riumki (Drie Rumor) 36 (1699) - BU 1710
  • Stul 36 (1699) - BU 1710
  • Vesy 36 (1699) - BU 1710
  • Yiozh (Igel) 40 (1700) - BU 1710
  • 6 anonymous 6-gun ships (1699) - Converted to provision vessels 1701, BU 1710
  • Bezboyazn‘ (Onberfrest, Zondervrees, Sunderban) 38 (1699) - BU 1710
  • Blagoye Nachalo (Gut Anfangen, Goed Begin, De Segel Begin) 36 (1699) - BU 1710
  • Soyedineniye (Unia, Enihkeit) 30 (1699) - Burnt 1711
  • Sila (Strakt) 36 (1699) - BU 1710
  • Otvorennuye Vrata (Opon de Poort) 36 (1699) - BU 1710
  • Tsvet Voiny (Oorlah Bloem) 36 (1699) - BU 1710
  • Merkurii (Mercurius) 22 (1699) - BU 1716
  • Lev (Lev s sableyu) 44 (1699) - BU after 1710
  • Yedinorog (Ein horn) 44 (1699) - BU after 1710
  • Gerkules 52 (1699) - BU 1710
  • Vinogradnaya Vetv‘ (Wijn stok) 58 (1702) - BU after 1710
  • Miach (Bal) 54 (1702) - BU after 1710
  • Kerpost‘ (Zamok, Kasteel, Citadel, Stargeit) 52 (1699) - Sailed to Constantinople in 1699-1700 with ambassador Emelian Ukraintsev who managed the Treaty of Constantinople (1700), delivered to Turkey 1711
  • Skorpion 52 (1699) - Flagship of admiral Fyodor Golovin during Kerch Expediniton 1699, last mentioned 1700
  • Flag 52 (1699) - Burnt 1709
  • Zvezda (Starn, Zolotaya Zvezda, De Goude Starn) 52 (1699) - BU 1709
  • Dumkracht 44 (1699) - BU 1710
  • Strus 44 (1699) - BU 1710
  • Kamen‘ 44 (1699) - BU 1710
  • Slon (Olifant) 44 (1699) - Delivered to Turkey 1711
  • Rys‘ (Luks) 44 (1699) - BU after 1709
  • Zhuravl‘ Stereguschiy (Kroan Opwacht) 44 (1699) - BU after 1709
  • Sokol (Falk) 44 (1699) - BU after 1709
  • Sobaka (Treigun) 44 (1699) - BU after 1709
  • Arfa 36 (1699) - BU after 1719
  • Granaat-apol 36 (1699) - BU after 1709


  • anonymous (known as "Italian") 70 - BU on slip 1700
  • Bozhiye Predvideniye (Goto Predestinatia) 58 (1700) - Flagship of vice-admiral Cornelius Cruys during Russo-Turkish War (1710–1711), sold to Turkey 1711
  • Cherepaha (Schelpot) 58 (1700) - BU 1727
  • Sviatoi Georgii (Sant Iori) 66 (1701) - Delivered to Turkey 1711
  • Razzhennoye Zhelezo (Git Ijzer) 36 (1701) - BU after 1710
  • Delfin 62 (1703) - BU 1716
  • Vingelgak 62 (1703) - BU 1716
  • Voronezh 62 (1703) - BU 1710
  • Samson 70 (1704) - BU 1710
  • Staryi Dub (Out Eiketbom) 70 (1705) - BU 1727
  • Aist (Ooievaar) 64 (1706) - BU 1727
  • Spiaschiy Lev (Slav Leeuw) 70 (1709) - BU 1727
  • Lastka (Schwal) 50 (1709) - Sold to Turkey 1711
  • Shpaga (Degen) 60 (1709) - Destroyed to prevent capture 1711
  • Sulitsa (Lanz) 60 (1709) - BU 1727
  • Skorpion 60 (1709) - BU 1727
  • Tsvet Voiny (Oorlah Bloem) 60 (1709) - BU 1727
  • Staryi Oriol (Out Adler) 82 (1709) - BU 1727
  • 4 anonymous 80-gun ships - BU on slip 1727
  • 7 anonymous 48-gun ships - BU on slip 1727
  • anonymous 24-gun ship - BU on slip 1727

Battleships of the Baltic Fleet (1703-1860)

  • Shtandart 28 (1703) - Reclassified to 28-gun frigate 1710, BU 1730

Shlissel‘burg-class (7 units)

  • Shlissel‘burg 28/24 (1704) - Reclassified to 28-gun frigate 1710, BU after 1710
  • Kronshlot 28/24 (1704) - Reclassified to 28-gun frigate 1710, BU after 1710
  • Peterburg 28/24 (1704) - Reclassified to 28-gun frigate 1710, BU after 1710
  • Triumph 28/24 (1704) - Converted to fire-ship 1710
  • Derpt 28/24 (1704) - Converted to fire-ship 1710
  • Narva 28/24 (1704) - Reclassified to 28-gun frigate 1710, BU after 1710
  • Fligel‘-de-Fam 28/24 (1704) - Flagship of vice-admiral Cornelius Cruys at the Kronstadt defence 1705 during the Great Northern War, converted to fire-ship 1710

Mikhail Arkhangel-class (2 units)

  • Mikhail Arkhangel 28 (1704) - Reclassified to 28-gun frigate 1710, BU after 1710
  • Ivan-gorod 28 (1705) - Reclassified to 28-gun frigate 1710, BU after 1710


  • Olifant 36 (1705) - Reclassified to 36-gun frigate 1710, BU 1712
  • Dumkrat 32 (1707) - Reclassified to 36-gun frigate 1710, BU 1713

Riga-class (4 units)

  • Riga 50 (1710) - BU 1721
  • Vyborg 50 (1710) - Wrecked and burnt to prevent capture 1713
  • Pernov 50 (1711) - BU 1721
  • anonymous 50 (1711) - Wrecked 1712


  • Poltava 54 (1712) - BU 1732

Gavriil-class (3 units)

  • Gavriil 52 (1713, A) - BU 1721
  • Rafail 52 (1713, A) - BU 1724
  • Arkhangel Mikhail 54 (1713, A) - BU 1722

Sviataya Ekaterina-class (3 units)

  • Sviataya Ekaterina 60 (1713) - Renamed Vyborg 1721, converted to praam 1727
  • Shlissel'burg 60 (1714) - BU after 1736
  • Narva 60 (1714) - Lightning 1715 (lost 318 men)

Ingermanland-class (2 units)

  • Ingermanland 64 (1715) - Flagship of Russo-Dutch-British-Danish Fleet of rear admiarl Pyotr Mikhailov in 1716 during the Great Northern War, BU after 1739
  • Moskva 64 (1715) - BU after 1732

Uriil-class (4 units)

  • Uriil 52 (1715, A) - Sold for BU in Amsterdam 1722
  • Varakhail 52 (1715, A) - BU 1724
  • Selafail 52 (1715, A) - BU 1724
  • Yagudiil 52 (1715, A) - Sold for BU in Amsterdam 1722


  • Sviatoi Aleksandr 70/76 (1717) - Flagship of admiral Zakhar Mishukov at Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743) in 1742, BU after 1746
  • Revel‘ 68 (1717) - BU 1732
  • Neptunus 70/78 (1718) - BU 1732
  • Lesnoye 90 (1718) - Damaged at the storm and BU 1741
  • Gangut 90/92 (1719) - BU 1736

Isaak-Viktoriya-class (2 units)

  • Isaak-Viktoriya 66 (1719) - BU after 1739
  • Astrakhan‘ 66 (1720) - BU 1736

Nord-Adler-class (2 units)

  • Nord-Adler 80/88 (1720) - BU after 1740
  • Sviatoi Andrei 80/88 (1721) - BU after 1740


  • Friedrichstadt 90/96 (1720) - BU 1736
  • Sviatoi Piotr 80/88 (1720) - BU 1736
  • Fridemaker 80/88 (1721) - BU 1736
  • Sviataya Ekaterina 66/70 (1721) - BU 1736
  • Panteleimon-Viktoriya 66 (1721) - BU 1736

Sankt-Mikhail-class (4 units)

  • Sankt-Mikhail 54 (1723) - BU after 1739
  • Rafail 54 (1724) - BU after 1739
  • Ne Tron‘ Menia (also Noli me tangere) 54 (1725) - BU after 1739
  • Riga 54 (1729) - Converted to hospital ship 1746


  • Derbent 64/66 (1724) - BU after 1739
  • Narva 64/66 (1725) - BU after 1739
  • Sviataya Natal'ya 66 (1727) - BU 1739
  • Piotr I i II 100 (1727) - Flagship of Russian admiral Thomas Gordon during the Siege of Danzig (1734), BU 1752

Piotr II-class (19 units)

  • Piotr II 54 (1728) - BU after 1739
  • Vyborg 54 (1729) - BU after 1739
  • Novaya Nadezhda 54 (1730) - BU 1747
  • Gorod Arkhadgel‘sk 54 (1735, A) - BU 1749
  • Severnaya Zvezda 54 (1735, A) - BU 1749
  • Neptunus 54 (1736, A) - BU after 1750
  • Azov 54 (1736) - BU 1752
  • Astrakhan‘ 54 (1736) - BU 1752
  • Sviatoi Andrei 54 (1737, A) - VU after 1752
  • Kronshtadt 54 (1738, A) - BU 1755
  • Sviatoi Panteleimon 54 (1740) - BU 1756
  • Sviatoi Isaakii 54 (1740, A) - BU 1756
  • Sviatoi Nikolai 54 (1748, A) - Renamed Sviatoy Nikolay vtotoy 1754, BU after 1762
  • Varakhiil 54 (1749, A) - Wrecked 1749
  • Shlissel‘burg 54 (1752, A) - BU 1765
  • Varakhiil 54 (1752, A) - BU 1763
  • Neptunus 54 (1758, A) - Discarded 1771
  • Gorod Arkhangel‘sk 54 (1761, A) - BU after 1774
  • Azia 54 (1768, A) - Lost in Aegean Sea 1773 (lost 439 men)

Slava Rossii-class (58 units)

  • Slava Rossii 66 (1733) - BU 1752
  • Severnyi Oriol 66 (1735) - BU 1763
  • Revel 66 (1735) - BU 1752
  • Ingermanland 66 (1735) - BU 1752
  • Osnovaniye Blagopoluchiya 66 (1736) - BU 1752
  • Leferm 66 (1739, A) - BU 1756
  • Schastiye 66 (ex-Generalissimus Rossiyskiy - renamed on slip) (1741, A) - BU 1756
  • Blagopoluchiye 66 (ex-Pravitel'nitsa Rossiyskaya - renamed on slip) (1741, A) - Converted to harbour lighter 1744, BU 1748
  • Sviatoi Piotr 66 (ex-Ioann - renamed on slip) (1741) - Flagship of admiral count Nikolai Golovin at Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743) in 1743, BU 1756
  • Ekaterina 66 (1742, A) - BU 1756
  • Fridemaker 66 (1742, A) - BU 1756
  • Lesnoi 66 (1743, A) - BU 1759
  • Poltava 66 (1743, A) - BU 1756
  • Arkhangel Rafail 66 (1744, A) - BU 1758
  • Sviataya Velokomuchenitsa Varvara 66 (1745) - BU 1755
  • Sviatoi Sergii 66 (1747, A) - BU 1763
  • Aleksandr Nevskii 66 (1749) - BU 1763
  • Ioann Zlatoust 66 (1740) - Renamed Ioann Zlatoust vtoroy 1751, BU 1759
  • Gavriil 66 (1749, A) - BU 1763
  • Uriil 66 (1749, A) - BU 1763
  • Moskva 66 (1750, A) - Wrecked 1758, found by divers 1893
  • Ingermanland 66 (1752, A) - BU 1765
  • Nataliya 66 (1754, A) - BU 1771
  • Poltava 66 (1754, A) - Sank in harbour from leak 1770
  • Astrakhan 66 (1756, A) - Wrecked 1760
  • Revel‘ 66 (1756, A) - BU 1771
  • Rafail 66 (1758, A) - BU 1771
  • anonymous 66 (1758, A) - Wrecked 1758
  • Moskva 66 (1760, A) - BU 1771
  • Sviatoi Piotr 66(1760, A) - Burnt 1764
  • Sviatoi Iakov 66 (1761, A) - BU 1774
  • Sviatoi Aleksandr Nevskiy 66 (1762, A) - Burnt 1764
  • Ne Tron‘ Menia 66 (1763, A) - Converted to frigate 1772, sold for BU in Livorno 1775
  • Severnyi Oriol 66 (1763, A) - Sold for BU in England 1770
  • Evstafii Plakida 66 (1763) - Was the flagship (2nd flag) and blew up at the Battle of Chesma (1770)
  • Ianuarii 66 (1763) - Sold for BU in Naousa 1775
  • Saratov 66 (1765, A) - BU 1786
  • Tver 66 (1765, A) - BU after 1776
  • Trekh Ierarkhov 66 (1766) - Flagship of General-in-Chief count Alexei Orlov at the Battle of Chesma (1770), discarded 1786
  • Trekh Sviatitelei 66 (1766) - Sold for BU in Naousa 1775
  • Evropa 66 (1768, A) - BU after 1791
  • Vsevolod 66 (1769, A) - Burnt 1779
  • Rostislav 66 (1769, A) - BU 1782
  • Sviatoi Georgii Pobedonosets 66 (1770) - BU 1780
  • Graf Orlov 66 (1770, A) - BU 1791
  • Pamiat‘ Evstafiya 66 (1770, A) - BU 1791
  • Pobeda 66 (1770, A) - BU 1780
  • Viktor 66 (1771, A) - BU 1791
  • Viachelsav 66 (1771, A) - BU after 1784
  • Dmitrii Donskoi 66 (1771, A) - BU 1791
  • Mironosits (also Sviatykh Zhen Mironosits) 66 (1771) - BU 1791
  • Svyatoi Kniaz‘ Vladimir 66 (1771) - BU after 1791
  • Aleksandr Nevskii 66 (1772, A) - BU 1784
  • Boris i Gleb 66 (1772, A) - Damaged in collision 1778, BU 1789
  • Preslava 66 (1772, A) - BU 1791
  • Deris‘ 66 (1772, A) - BU 1791
  • Ingermanlandia 66 (1773, A) - BU 1784
  • Spiridon 66 (1779) - BU 1791


  • Imperatritsa Anna 110/114 (1737) - BU 1752

Sviatoi Pavel-class (10 units)

  • Sviatoi Pavel 80 (1743) - BU 1756
  • Ioann Zlatoust pervyi 80 (1751) - BU 1769
  • Sviatoi Nikolai 80 (1754) - Flagship of admiral Zakhar Mishukov in 1758 during the Seven Years' War, BU 1769
  • Sviatoi Pavel 80 (1755) - Flagship of admiral Zakhar Mishukov in 1757 during the Seven Years' War, BU 1769
  • Sviatoi Andrei Pervozvannyi 80 (1758) - BU 1785
  • Sviatoi Kliment Papa Rimskii 80 (1758) - Flagship of admiral Andrey Polianskiy in 1760 during the Seven Years' War, BU 1780
  • Kir Ioann (ex-Friedrich Rex - renamed on slip) 80 (1762) - Discarded after 1769
  • Sviataya Ekaterina (ex-Prinz Georg - renamed on slip) 80 (1762) - Discarded after 1769
  • Sviatoslav 80 (1769) - Cut down as 2-decker 72-gun battleship in England 1769, flagship (3rd flag) at the Battle of Chesma (1770), wrecked and scuttled to prevent capture 1770
  • Chesma (also Sviatoi Ioann Krestitel‘) 80 (1770) - BU 1781


  • Zakharii i Elisavet 100 (1748) - BU 1759
  • Sviatoi Dmitrii Rostovskii 100 (1758) - Flagship of admiral Zakhar Mishukov in 1760 during the Seven Years' War, BU 1772

Sviatoi Velikomuchenik Isidor-class (2 units)

  • Sviatoi Velikomuchenik Isidor 74 (1772) - BU 1784
  • Sviatoi Velikomuchenik Panteleimon 74 (1772) - BU 1784


  • Iezikil‘ 78 (1773) - BU after 1797

Azia-class (28 units)

  • Azia 66 (1773, A) - BU after 1791
  • Amerika 66 (1773, A) - BU after 1791
  • Slava Rossii 66 (1774, A) - Wrecked near Toulon 1780
  • Blagopoluchiye 66 (1774, A) - BU 1793
  • Tviordyi 66 (1774, A) - BU 1791
  • Sviatoi Nikolai 66 (1775, A) - BU 1790
  • Khrabryi 66 (1775, A) - BU 1793
  • Ianuarii 66 (1780, A) - BU 1815
  • Ne Tron‘ Menia 66 (1780, A) - Hulked 1803
  • Sviatoslav 66 (1781, A) - BU after 1800
  • Trekh Sviatitelei 66 (1781, A) - BU 1801
  • Vysheslav 66 (1782, A) - Wrecked and burnt to prevent capture 1789
  • Rodislav 66 (1782, A) - Wrecked 1789
  • Boleslav 66 (1783, A) - BU 1808
  • Mecheslav 66 (1783, A) - BU after 1794
  • Isiaslav 66 (1784, A) - Converted to 74-gun ship, BU 1808
  • Panteleimon 66 (1786, A) - BU after 1804
  • Severnyi Oriol 66 (1787, A) - Wrecked and destroyed to prevent capture 1789
  • Prokhor 66 (1788, A) - BU after 1795
  • Parmen 66 (1789, A) - BU 1799
  • Nikanor 66 (1789, A) - Last mentioned 1796
  • Pimen 66 (1789, A) - BU 1799
  • Iona 66 (1790, A) - BU 1803
  • Filipp 66 (1790, A) - BU 1803
  • Graf Orlov 66 (1791, A) - Renamed Mikhail 1796, BU 1809
  • Evropa 66 (1793, A) - BU 1811
  • Azia 66 (1796, A) - Transferred to the Black Sea Fleet 1801, sold to France in Trieste 1809
  • Pobeda 66 (1797, A) - Transferred to the Black Sea Fleet 1801, BU after 1816

Tsar' Konstantin-class (4 units)

  • Tsar‘ Konstantin 74 (1779) - Discarded after 1797
  • Pobedoslav (also Simon Srodnik Gospodnia) 74 (1782) - BU 1804
  • Sviataya Elena 74 (1785) - Interned by Britain 1808, released and sold to Britain 1813
  • Aleksandr Nevskii 74 (1787, A) - Converted to floating craine 1804, BU 1814


  • David Selunskii 66 (1779) - BU after 1789
  • Pobedonosets 66 (1780) - BU 1807
  • Ioann Bogoslov 74 (1783) - BU 1791

Chesma-class (9 units)

  • Chesma (also Ioann Krestitel‘) 100 (1783) - Flagship of admiral Andrei Kruz at the Kronstadt Battle (1790), BU 1806
  • Trekh Ierarkhov 100 (1783) - Discarded after 1796
  • Rostislav 100 (1784) - Flagship of admiral Samuil Greig at the Battle of Hogland (1788), flagship of admiral Vasili Chichagov at the Battle of Öland (1789), Battle of Reval (1790) and Battle of Vyborg Bay (1790), BU after 1805
  • Saratov 100 (1785) - Hulked as hospital ship 1804
  • Dvu-na-desiat‘ Apostolov 100 (1788) - BU 1802
  • Sviatoi Ravno-apostol‘nyi Kniaz‘ Vladimir 100 (1788) - BU 1802
  • Sviatoi Nikolai Chudotvorets 100 (1789) - BU 1807
  • Evsevii 100 (1790) - BU 1803
  • anonymous 100 - BU on slip 1798

Yaroslav-class (19 units)

  • Yaroslav 74 (1784, A) - BU 1798
  • Vladislav 74 (1784, A) - Captured by Sweden after the Battle of Hogland (1788), renamed Wladislaff, discarded 1819
  • Vseslav 74 (1785, A) - BU 1798
  • Mstislav 74 (1785, A) - BU 1811
  • Kir Ioann 74 (1785, A) - BU 1798
  • Sviatoi Piotr 74 (1786, A) - BU 1803
  • Sysoi Velikii 74 (1788, A) - BU 1804
  • Maksim Ispovednik 74 (1788, A) - BU 1804
  • Boris 74 (1789, A) - Hulked as depot 1802
  • Gleb 74 (1789, A) - Converted to hospital ship 1805
  • Aleksei 74 (1790, A) - Hulked 1808, BU 1815
  • Piotr 74 (1790, A) - BU 1821
  • Pamiat‘ Evstafiya 74 (1791, A) - BU 1817
  • Isidor 74 (1795, A) - Transferred to the Black Sea Fleet 1801, BU 1812
  • Vsevolod 74 (1796, A) - Destroyed in the action near Baltiyskiy Port (1808) during the Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812)
  • Severnyi Oriol 74 (1797, A) - BU 1809
  • Moskva 74 (1799, A) - Sold to France in Toulon 1809
  • Yaroslav 74 (1799, A) - Interned by Britain 1808, released and sold to Britain 1813
  • Sviatoi Piotr 74 (1799, A) - Sold to France in Toulon 1809


  • Elisaveta 74 (1795) - BU 1817
  • Blagodat‘ 130 (1800) - Flagship of admiral Pyotr Khanykov in 1808 during the Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812), BU 1814
  • Rafail 80/82 (1800) - Interned by Britain 1808 and non released
  • Zachatiye Sviatoi Anny 74 (1800) - BU 1810
  • Arkhistratig Mikhail 72/64 (1800) - Converted to transport vessel 1813, BU 1817
  • Gavriil 100 (1802) - BU 1819
  • Uriil 80 (1802) - Sold to France in Trieste 1809

Selafail-class (23 units)

  • Selafail 74 (1803) - Flagship of vice-admiral Dmitry Senyavin during the Adriatic Sea Campaign (1806), interned by Britain 1808, released and sold to Britain 1813
  • Sil‘nyi 74 (1804, A) - Interned by Britain 1808, released 1813, BU 1819
  • Oriol 74 (1807, A) - BU 1833
  • Severnaya Zvezda 74 (1807, A) - Damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), BU 1827
  • Borei 74 (1807, A) - Damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), BU 1829
  • Ne Tron‘ Menia 74 (1809, A) - Damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), BU 1828
  • Trekh Ierarkhov 74 (1809, A) - Damaged during flod in Kronstadt (1824), hulked as depot 1827
  • Sviatoslav 74 (1809, A) - Damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), BU 1828
  • Nord-Adler 74 (1811, A) - Sold to Spain 1818, renamed España, stricken 1821
  • Prints Gustav 74 (1811, A) - Damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), BU 1827
  • Berlin 74 (1813, A) - Hulked as depot 1827
  • Gamburg 74 (1813, A) - Damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), hulked as depot 1827
  • Drezden 74 (1813, A) - Sold to Spain 1818, renamed Alejandro I, stricken 1823
  • Liubek 74 (1813, A) - Sold to Spain 1818, renamed Numancia I, BU 1823
  • Arsis 74 (1816, A) - Damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), hulked as depot 1828
  • Katsbakh 74 (1816, A) - Damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), hulked 1828
  • Retvizan 74 (1818, A) - BU 1833
  • Trekh Sviatitelei 74 (1819, A) - Damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), BU 1828
  • Sviatoi Andrei 74 (1821, A) - Sunk as target vessel by admiral Karl Sсhilder's submarine 1840
  • Sysoi Velikii 74 (1822, A) - BU 1837
  • Prokhor 74 (1823, A) - BU 1846
  • Kniaz‘ Vladimir 74 (1824, A) - Hulked 1831
  • Tsar‘ Konstantin 74 (1825, A) - BU 1831


  • Moschnyi 66 (1805, A) - Interned by Britain 1808, released 1813, BU 1817
  • Skoryi 66 (1805) - Interned by Britain 1808, released and sold to Britain 1813
  • Tviordyi 74 (1805) - Flagship of vice-admiral Dmitry Senyavin at the Battle of the Dardanelles (1807) and Battle of Athos (1807), interned by Britain 1808, released and sold to Britain 1813
  • Khrabryi 120 (1808) - Damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), BU 1829
  • Smelyi 88 (1808) - BU 1819
  • Pobedonosets 64 (1809, A) - Hulked 1822

Vsevolod-class (2 units)

  • Vsevolod 66 (1809, A) - Hulked 1820
  • Saratov 66 (1809, A) - Wrecked 1812

Pamiat' Evstafiya-class (2 units)

  • Pamiat‘ Evstafiya 74 (1810) - BU 1828
  • Chesma 74 (1811) - BU 1828

Trekh Sviatitelei-class (7 units)

  • Trekh Sviatitelei 74 (1810) - Sold to Spain 1818, renamed Velasco, stricken 1821
  • Mironisits 74 (1811) - BU 1825
  • Yupiter 74 (1812) - Damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), BU 1828
  • Neptunus 74 (1813) - Sold to Spain 1818, renamed Fernando VII, stricken 1823
  • Piotr 74 (1814) - BU 1828
  • Finland 74 (1814) - Damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), BU 1828
  • Fershampenuaz 74 (1817) - Flagship of rear admiral Pyotr Rikord during the Civil conflict in Greece (1831), burnt 1831


  • Rostislav 110 (1813) - BU 1827

Leipzig-class (2 units)

  • Leipzig 110 (1816) - Damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), hulked as depot 1825, BU 1832
  • Tviordyi 110 (1819) - Damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), BU 1828


  • Emgeiten 84 (1820) - Renamed Kronshtadt 1829, hulked 1835
  • Emmanuil 64 (1824) - Sold to Greece 1830, BU 1832-33
  • Gangut 84 (1825) - Converted to screw 1854, training ship 1862, decommissioned 1871

Iezekiil‘-class (25 units)

  • Iezekiil‘ 80 (1826, A) - Hulked 1842, BU 1849
  • Azov 74 (1826, A) - Russian flagship of admiral Login Geiden at the Battle of Navarino (1827) and during Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829) in Aegean Sea, BU 1831
  • Aleksandr Nevskii 74 (1826) - Cut down as 64-gun frigate 1832, hulked as depot 1846, BU 1847
  • Velikii Kniaz‘ Mikhail 86 (1827) - Converted to floating crane 1860, decommissioned 1863
  • Katsbach 80 (1828, A) - BU 1857
  • Kul‘m 90 (1828, A) - BU 1857
  • Arsis 80 (1828) - Hulked 1854
  • Lesnoye 80 (1829, A) - Hulked as depot 1842
  • Narva 80 (1829, A) - Hulked 1844
  • Brien 80 (1829) - Decommissioned 1860
  • Borodino 80 (1830, A) - Hulked 1847
  • Krasnoi 80 (1830, A) - Hulked 1844
  • Berezino 80 (1830) - BU 1860
  • Smolensk 80 (1830) - Hulked as depot 1856
  • Pamiat‘ Azova 86 (1831, A) - Hulked 1848, BU 1854
  • Oriol 80 (1833, A) - Hulked 1848
  • Ostrolenka 80 (1834, A) - Hulked 1848
  • Leipzig 80 (1836, A) - Hulked 1850
  • Retvizan 80 (1839, A) - Hulked 1852
  • Finland 80 (1840, A) - BU 1857
  • Ingermanland 74 (1842, A) - Wrecked 1842 (lost 329 men, women and children)
  • Ingermanland (ex-Iezekil‘ - renamed on slip) 74 (1844, A) - Decommissioned 1860
  • Narva (ex-Sviatoslav - renamed on slip) 74 (1846, A) - Cut down as 58-gun frigate 1855, decommissioned 1863
  • Pamiat‘ Azova 74 (1848, A) - Decommissioned 1863
  • Sysoi Velikiy 74 (1849, A) - Cut down as 58-gun frigate 1855, decommissioned 1863

Imperator Aleksandr-class (3 units)

  • Imperator Aleksandr 110 (1827) - BU 1854
  • Imperator Piotr I 110 (1829) - Decommissioned 1863
  • Sviatoi Georgii Pobedonosets 110 (1829) - BU 1858

Imperatritsa Aleksandra-class (8 units)

  • Imperatritsa Aleksandra 84/96 (1827) - Decommissioned 1863
  • Emgeiten 84/94 (1828) - BU 1858
  • Poltava 84/90 (1829) - Decommissioned 1860
  • Ne Tron' Menia 84/92 (1832) - Decommissioned 1863
  • Vladimir 84/92 (1833) - Converted to floating crane 1860
  • Lefort 84/94 (1835) - Wrecked 1857 (826 men, women and children lost)
  • Vola 84/92 (1837) - Converted to screw 1856, later become training ship, BU 1889
  • Andrei 84/92 (1844) - Hulked as floating barracks 1857, decommissioned 1861

Fershampenuaz-class (3 units)

  • Fershampenuaz 74/82 (1833) - Decommissioned 1860
  • Konstantin 74/82 (1837) - Converted to screw 1854, decommissioned 1864
  • Vyborg 74/82 (1841) - Coverted to screw 1854, decommissioned 1863


  • Rossia 120/128 (1839) - Hulked as floating barracks 1857, BU 1860
  • Krasnoi 84 (1847) - Decommissioned 1863
  • Iezekiil‘ 74 (1847, A) - Hulked 1860, decommissioned 1863
  • Prokhor 84 (1851) - Artillery training ship 1858, decommissioned 1863
  • Oriol 84 (1854) (completed as screw) - Decommissioned in 1863
  • Retvisan 84 (1855) (completed as screw) - Converted to sail 1863, to target vessel 1874, decommissioned 1880

Borodino-class (2 units)

  • Borodino 74 (1850, A) - Cut down as 58-gun frigate 1855, decommissioned 1863
  • Vilagosh 74 (1851, A) - Cut down as 58-gun frigate 1855, decommissioned 1863


  • Imperator Nikolai I 111/109 (1860) (screw) - Decommissioned 1874

Battleships of the Azov Flotilla (1770-1783) of Catherine the Great

"New-invented" Type I (1 unit)
All eight "new-invented" units were flat-bottomed, two-mast (except Khotin), one-deck ships. Built in middle stream of Don River. Designed capable to sail downstream and to overpass river's sand-bar.

"New-invented" Type II (7 units)

  • Azov 16 (1770) - Transferred to the Black Sea Fleet 1783, BU after 1784
  • Modon 16 (1770) - Transferred to the Black Sea Fleet 1783, BU after 1783
  • Taganrog 16 (1770) - Wrecked 1782
  • Morea 16 (1770) - BU after 1774
  • Novopavlovsk 16 (1770) - BU after 1774
  • Koron 16 (1770) - Wrecked 1782
  • Zhurzha 16 (1770) - Transferred to the Black Sea Fleet 1783, BU after 1784

Battleships of the Black Sea Fleet (1783-1855)

  • Ekaterina 60 - BU on slip 1785

Slava Ekateriny-class (6 units)

  • Slava Ekateriny 66 (1783) - Renamed Preobrazheniye Gospodne 1788, flaghip of rear admiral count Mark Voynovich at the Battle of Fidonisi (1788), BU after 1791
  • Sviatoi Pavel 66 (1784) - BU after 1794
  • Maria Magdalina 66 (1785) - Heavily damaged at the storm and captured by Turkey near Bosporus 1787
  • Aleksandr 66 (1786) - Wrecked 1786
  • Vladimir 66 (1787) - BU after 1804


Apostol Andrei-class (2 units)

  • Apostol Andrei 50 (1786) - Reclassified to 50-gun frigate 1793, converted to floating crane 1800
  • Aleksandr Nevskii 50 (1787) - Reclassified to 50-gun frigate 1793, discarded after 1799

Piotr Apostol-class (6 units)

  • Piotr Apostol 50/46 (1788) - Reclassified to 44-gun frigate 1793, BU after 1799
  • Ioann Bogoslov 50/46 (1788) - Reclassified to 44-gun frigate 1793, burnt 1794
  • Tsar‘ Konstantin 50/46 (1789) - Reclassified to 44-gun frigate 1793, wrecked 1799 (399 men lost including rear admiral I. T. Ovtsyn)
  • Fiodor Stratilat 50/46 (1790) - Reclassified to 44-gun frigate 1793, wrecked 1799 (268 men lost)
  • Soshestviye Sviatogo Dukha (ex-Sviataya Troitsa - renamed on slip) 50/46 (1791) -Reclassified to 44-gun frigate 1793, discarded after 1802
  • Kazanskaya Bogoroditsa 50/46 (1791) - Reclassified to 44-gun frigate 1793, discarded after 1802


  • Maria Magdalina I 66 (1789) - BU 1803
  • Navarkhia (also Vozneseniye Gospodne) 50/46 - Reclassified to 50-gun frigate 1793, discarded after 1802
  • Sviatoi Nikolai 50/44 (1790) - Reclassified to 44-gun frigate 1793, sold for BU in Naples 1802
  • Bogoyavleniye Gospodne 66/72 (1791) - BU 1804
  • Sviataya Troitsa 66/72 (ex-Soshestviye Sviatogo Dukha - renamed on slip) (1791) - BU after 1806
  • Sviatoi Pavel 90/84/82 (1794) - Flagship of admiral Fyodor Ushakov in Mediterranean Campaign (1798-1800) and Corfu assault (1799), BU 1810

Sviatoi Piotr-class (7 units)

  • Sviatoi Piotr 74 (1794) - Hulked as depot 1803
  • Zakharii i Elizavet 74 (1795) - Hulked as depot 1803
  • Simeon i Anna 74 (1797) - Discarded after 1804
  • Sviatoi Mikhail 74 (1798) - Hulked as hospital ship 1807, sold for BU in Corfu 1807
  • Maria Magdalina II 74 (1799) - BU after 1810
  • Tol‘skaya Bogoroditsa 74 (1799) - Wrecked 1804 (164 men lost)
  • Sviataya Paraskeva 74 (1799) - Sold to France in Trieste 1809


  • Yagudiil 110 (1800) - BU 1812
  • Varakhiil 68 (1800) - BU 1813
  • Ratnyi 110 (1802) - Flagship of rear admiral Semyon Pustoshkin in 1807 during Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812), BU after 1825
  • Pravyi 74/76 (1804) - Discarded after 1813

Anapa-class (11 units)

  • Anapa 74 (1807) - Hulked 1827
  • Maria 74 (1808) - BU after 1818
  • Dmitrii Donskoi 74 (1807) - Discarded after 1818
  • Azia 74 (1810) - BU 1825
  • Lesnoi (Lesnoye) 74 (1811) - Hulked 1825
  • Maksim Ispovednik 74 (1812) - BU 1832
  • Brien 74 (1813) - Hulked 1826
  • Kulm 74 (1813) - Hulked 1826
  • Krasnoi 74 (1816) - Hulked 1827
  • Nikolai 74 (1816) - Hulked 1827
  • Skoryi 74 (1818) - BU after 1830

Poltava-class (3 units)


  • Nord-Adler 74 (1820) - BU 1839
  • Imperator Frants 110 (1821) - BU 1832
  • Pimen 74 (1823) - Hulked 1839
  • Rarmen 74/89 (1823) - Hulked 1835, BU 1842
  • Panteleimon 80 (1824) - Hulked 1838
  • Ioann Zlatoust 74/83 (1825) - Hulked 1841
  • Derbent 110 (1826) - Renamed Parizh 1827, Flagship of admiral Alexey Greig during Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829), hulked 1836, BU 1845

Imperatritsa Maria-class (3 units)

  • Imperatritsa Maria 84/96 (1827) - Hulked 1843
  • Chesma 84/91 (1828) - Hulked 1841
  • Anapa 84/108 (1829) - Converted to harbour vessel 1845, BU 1850


  • Pamiat‘ Evstafiya 84/108 (1830) - Flagship of rear admiral Mikhail Lazarev at the Bosporus Expedition (1833), converted to harbour vessel 1845, BU 1850
  • Adrianopol 84/108 (1830) - Converted to harbour vessel 1845, BU 1850
  • Imperatritsa Ekaterina II 84/96 (1831) - Converted to harbour vessel 1845, hulked 1847
  • Varshava 120 (1833) - BU 1850
  • Silistria 84/88 (1835) - Hulked 1852, scuttled to protect the harbour in 1854 during the Siege of Sevastopol

Sultan Makhmut-class (8 units)

  • Sultan Makhmut 84 (1836) - Hulked 1852, BU 1854
  • Trekh Ierarkhov 84 (1838) - BU 1854
  • Gavriil 84 (1839) - Scuttled to protect the harbour in 1854 during the Siege of Sevastopol
  • Selafail 84 (1840) - Scuttled to protect the harbour in 1854 during the Siege of Sevastopol
  • Uriil 84 (1840) - Scuttled to protect the harbour in 1854 during the Siege of Sevastopol
  • Varna 84 (1842) - Scuttled to protect the harbour in 1854 during the Siege of Sevastopol
  • Yagudiil 84 (1843) - Scuttled in 1855 at Sevastopol, when Russian troops abandoned the city
  • Sviatoslav 84 (1845) - Hospital ship 1854, scuttled to protect the harbour in 1855 during the Siege of Sevastopol


  • Tri Sviatitelia 120/124 (1838) - Scuttled to protect the harbour in 1854 during the Siege of Sevastopol

Dvenadtsat‘ Apostolov-class (3 units - best Russian 3-deckers)

  • Dvenadtsat‘ Apostolov 120/124 (1841) - Scuttled to protect the harbour in 1855 during the Siege of Sevastopol
  • Parizh 120/124 (1849) - Scuttled in 1855 at Sevastopol, when Russian troops abandoned the city
  • Velikii Kniaz‘ Konstantin 120/124 (1852) - Scuttled in 1855 at Sevastopol, when Russian troops abandoned the city


Khrabryi-class (2 units)

  • Khrabryi 84 (1847) - Scuttled in 1855 at Sevastopol, when Russian troops abandoned the city
  • Imperatritsa Maria 84 (1853) - Flagship of admiral Pavel Nakhimov at the Battle of Sinop (1853), scuttled in 1855 at Sevastopol, when Russian troops abandoned the city


  • Chesma 84 (1849) - Scuttled in 1855 at Sevastopol, when Russian troops abandoned the city
  • Tsesarevitch 135/115 (1857) - Transferred to the Baltic Fleet 1858-1859, converted to screw 1860, decommissioned 1874
  • Sinop (ex-Bosfor - renamed on slip) 130 (1858) - Transferred to the Baltic Fleet 1858-1859, converted to screw 1860, decommissioned 1874

Russian trophies (line-of-battleships)

  • Vakhmeister 52 (ex-Swedish Wachtmeister 1681, captured in Battle of Osel Island 1719) - BU after 1728
  • Rodos 60 (ex-Turkish ?, captured in Battle of Chesma 1770) - Wrecked 1770
  • Leontii Muchenik 64 (ex-Turkish ?, captured near Ochakov (1788) during Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)) - BU after 1791
  • Prints Gustav 70/74 (ex-Swedish Prins Gustav 1758, captured in Battle of Hogland 1788) - Wrecked by Norwegian coast 1798
  • Kronprins Gustav Adolf 62 (ex-Swedish 1782, captured near Sveaborg 1788) - Non commissioned and burnt by Russians 1788
  • Prints Karl 66 (ex-Swedish Prins Carl 1758, captured in Battle of Reval 1790) - BU after 1813
  • Emgeiten 62/66 (ex-Swedish Ömheten 1783, captured in Battle of Vyborg Bay 1790) - BU 1816
  • Retvizan 64/66 (ex-Swedish Rättvisan 1783, captured in Battle of Vyborg Bay 1790) - Interned by Britain 1808, released 1813 and sold to Britain
  • Sofia-Magdalina 74 (ex-Swedish Sofia Magdalena 1774, captured in Battle of Vyborg Bay 1790) - BU after 1805
  • Finland 60 (ex-Swedish Finland 1735, captured in Battle of Vyborg Bay 1790) - Non commissioned and BU after 1794
  • Uppland 54 (ex-Swedish Uppland 1750, captured in Battle of Vyborg Bay 1790) - Non commissioned and scullted 1790
  • Ioann Pretdecha 78/66 (ex-Turkish Melek-i Bahri, captured in Battle of Tendra 1790) - Converted to floating battery in Sevastopol 1800
  • Leander 50 (ex-British Leander 1780, ex-Frehch 1798, captured during Corfu assault (1799) by admiral Fyodor Ushakov's Russo-Turkish Squadron) - Returned to Britain 1800, hospital ship 1813, sold for BU 1817
  • Bechermer 44 (ex-Dutch, captured by British-Russian Squadron near Texel Island (1799) during the War of the Second Coalition) - Delivered to Britain 1799
  • Washington 70 (ex-Dutch, captured by British-Russian Squadron near Texel Island (1799) during the War of the Second Coalition) - Delivered to Britain 1799
  • Sedel‘ Bakhr 84 (ex-Turkish Sadd al-Bahr, captured in Battle of Athos 1807) - Sold to France in Trieste 1809

Purchased foreign-built battleships (for the Baltic Fleet)

These were purchased around 1711-21. Name in brackets indicates place or country of purchase. It is difficult to trace some origins.

  • Sviatoi Antonii 50 (Hamburg, ex-Don Antonio di Padua) - Purchased 1711, wrecked 1716
  • Randolf 50 (England, ex-British Randolph) - Purchased 1712, BU 1725
  • Bulinbruk 52 (c. 1702, England, ex-British Sussex) - Captured by Sweden 1714 and returned to Britain
  • Oksford 50 (c. 1699, England, ex-Tankerfield) - Purchased 1712, sold in England 1717
  • Viktoria 50 (c. 1706, England, ex-French Grand Vainqueur, (ex-French Gaillard)? ex-Dutch Overwinnaer, captured 1708) - Purchased 1712, BU after 1739
  • Straford 50 (c. 1700, England, ex-Wintworth) - Purchased 1712, BU 1732
  • Fortuna 50 (ex-British Fortune) - Purchased 1713, wrecked 1716
  • Armont 50 (ex-British) - Purchased 1713, BU 1747
  • Arondel 50 (ex-British Arundel) - Purchased 1713, BU 1747
  • Perl 50 (c. 1706/13, ex-Dutch Groote Perel) - Purchased 1713, BU after 1734
  • Leferm 70 (ex-British, purchased 1713, ex-French le Ferme, captured 1702) - Purchased 1713, BU 1737
  • London 54 (ex-British) - Purchased 1714, wrecked 1719
  • Britania 50 (ex-British Great Allen) - Purchased 1714, converted to praam 1728
  • Portsmut 54 (1714, Dutch-built for Russia) - Purchased 1714, flagship of captain Naum Senyavin at the Battle of Osel Island (1719), wrecked 1719
  • Devonshir 52 (1714, Dutch-built for Russia) - Purchased 1714, BU after 1737
  • Marl‘burg 60 (1714, Dutch-built for Russia) - Purchased 1714, BU 1747
  • Prints Evgenii 50 (1721, Dutch-built for Russia) - Purchased 1721, BU after 1739
  • Nishtadt 56 (1721, Dutch-built for Russia, ex-Rotterdam) - Purchased 1721, wrecked 1721


  • anonymous 56 (c. 1710, ex-French Beau Parterre, ex-Dutch Schonauwen, captured 1711) - Captured by Sweden and renamed Kronskepp (never commissioned to the Russian Navy)
  • Syurireis (=Surrey?) - Sold to Spain 1714 (as Real Macy 60)? (never commissioned to the Russian Navy)

References

  • Veselago F. F. Spisok russkikh voyennykh sudov s 1668 po 1860 god. - Tipographia Morskogo Vedomstva, St. Peterburg, 1872 (List of Russian naval ships from 1668 to 1860)
  • Chernyshev A. A. Rossiyskiy parusnyi flot. Spravochnik. T. I. - Voyenizdat, Moskva, 1997 (Russian Sailing Fleet. Referebce-book)
  • Boyevaya letopis' russkogo flota. Khronika vazhneishikh sobytii voyennoi istorii russkogo flota s IX veka po 1917 god. - Voyenizdat, Moskva, 1948. (Combat Annales of the Russian Navy. Chronicle of the Most Important Events of the Russian Navy History from IX century up to 1917)
  • Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905 - Conway Maritime Press
  • Naval Wars in the Baltic 1553-1850 (1910) - R. C. Anderson
  • Naval Wars in the Levant 1559-1853 (1952) - R. C. Anderson
  • Russian seapower and the Eastern question, 1827-41 (1991) - John C. K. Daly ISBN 1557507260
  • Mariner's Mirror (various issues)

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