boilers provided steam to the engines. The engines and boilers were both imported from Maudslay and Sons of the United Kingdom and were overweight. The engines had a total designed output of , but they only produced on trials and gave a top speed of . At full load she carried of coal that provided her a range of at a speed of and at . Her main armament consisted of three pairs of Obukhov Model 1886 35-calibre guns mounted in two twin barbette mounts side by side forward and one aft of the superstructure. They had a maximum elevation of 15° and could depress to −2°. Each of the forward mounts could traverse 30° across the bow and 35° abaft the beam, or a total of 155°. The rear mount could traverse 202°. Their rate of fire was one round every four minutes, fifty seconds, including training time. They fired a shell at a muzzle velocity of to a range of at maximum elevation. They also had a 'heavy' shell available that weighed that was fired at a velocity of although the range is not available. The seven 35-calibre guns were mounted on broadside pivot mounts in hull embrasures, except for one gun mounted in the stern in the hull. The eight single-barrelled Hotchkiss guns were mounted on the battery deck to defend the ship against torpedo boats. Ten Hotchkiss guns were mounted in the fighting top. She carried seven above-water torpedo tubes, three tubes on each broadside and a tube in the stern. In contrast to her half-sisters the armour used on Georgii Pobedonosets was steel. The belt armor had a maximum thickness of which reduced, in steps, down to forward and down to aft. Its height was reduced by in comparison to the other ships of the class to to reduce weight. However this left only six inches of her belt above her load waterline as she was still overweight, a decrease of from her half-sisters. The deck armour was outside the citadel and reduced to over it. Service history Georgii Pobedonosets was named after Saint George the Victorious. She was built by the Russian Steam Navigation Company (RoPIT) at Sevastopol. She was laid down on 5 May 1891, launched on 9 March 1892, and completed in 1893, although her trials lasted until mid-1895. She spent her career in the Black Sea Fleet. She began her trials