 The Soviets considered finishing Kinburn and Navarin to a modified design that featured 16 @-@ inch ( 410 mm ) guns ; a two @-@ gun turret weighed slightly less than a triple 14 @-@ inch gun turret . Four proposals were made with various changes to the turrets ' armour scheme , but none were accepted , not least because the prospects of actually acquiring such guns were minimal . Domestic industry was not capable of building such large guns and they were not able to purchase the guns from any foreign company . Other ideas were examined for the three less complete ships . These included converting the hulls to cargo ships , passenger liners , or 22 @,@ 000 @-@ long @-@ ton ( 22 @,@ 000 t ) oil barges , but most of the ideas were rejected as the hulls were thought to be too large and unwieldy for the proposed alternative uses . None of the proposals was accepted , and all three of the less complete ships were sold to a German company for scrap on 21 August 1923 to raise much @-@ needed cash for the government . 
