Everything about Japanese Battleship Tango totally explained
Tango (丹後) was one of eight
Russian
pre-dreadnought battleships captured by the
Imperial Japanese Navy during the
Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. She was built as the Russian
Petropavlovsk-class battleship Poltava, and was commissioned into the
Imperial Russian Navy in 1898. She was one of three ships in her class: her
sister ships
Petropavlovsk and
Sevastopol were both sunk during the
Russo-Japanese War.
History
The
Poltava fought in the
Battle of the Yellow Sea, but failed to escape and was scuttled during the
Siege of Port Arthur. Salvaged after the war in October 1905, she was refloated, repaired, and taken into service in the
Imperial Japanese Navy as the
Tango, taking her name from the
ancient Japanese province of
Tango, now a part of
Kyoto-fu.
On
28 August 1912, the
Tango was re-classified as a 1st class Coastal Defence Vessel.
During
World War I,
Japan and
Russia became allies, and the
Tango was returned to the Russian navy on
4 April 1916, where she was renamed the
Chesma, and transferred to the
Arctic. Captured by the
British during the
Allied invasion of northern Russia during the Russian Civil War and damaged beyond repair, she was scrapped in 1923.
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