The first battleships of the Black Sea fleet were put in Sevastopol

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The first battleships of the Black Sea fleet – "Chesma" and "Sinop" were put in October, 1883 on shipyards of Sevastopol. Their Russian ship engineers Artseulov and Toropov built. New projects were developed for the Black Sea battleships. Instead of towers by the ships designed on three two-cannon barbetny installations. In them placed 305-mm tools of a sample of 1877. Armored belt of the ships extended and expanded, iron plates replaced with the stalezhelezny. Them made to England. At that time it were the huge ships. For example, "Chesma's" displacement – nearly 11 thousand tons, the power of cars – from above...