She set sail for the Pacific in the famed Second Pacific Squadron, the very one that engaged Admiral Togo’s Combined Fleet in the Battle of Tsushima. Oleg was commissioned into the Baltic Fleet on 24 June 1904, by which point the Russo-Japanese War was well underway. Oleg (Russian: Олег) was the fourth and final ship of the Bogatyr-class, being laid down at the Admiralty Shipyards on 6 July 1902, being launched 14 August 1903. As well, upon her completion, the class could boast to have the thickest armor of any protected cruisers in the Navy, with an armor deck that sloped to the sides and ends thickest sections being 70mm. Russian engineers successfully modified the planned power plant and managed to increase the top-speed to 24 knots very fast for its time. Armament of choice were the venerable 152mm Canet guns, Bogatyr-class having the largest salvo of any Russian cruiser at the time, with 12 guns. The rest of the main artillery was placed in single-mounts with a blast shield along the broadsides of the main deck and in casemates along the main and aft superstructure. The enclosed two-gun turrets were found on the elevated decks providing better clearance and a greater arc-of-fire. By 1899, the plans for the protected cruiser were purchased and distributed to the various shipyards in charge of constructing the 4 cruisers of the Bogatyr-class.īogatyr-class ships were of the three-funnel, two-mast design (fore and main), with small, but pronounced poop and forecastle at the edges of the deck. Of all the competing designs, the Russian Naval Ministry found the project offered by the German company, Vulkan, to be the best. In 1898, the Imperial Russian Navy sent out a request to acquire new protected cruisers for its Pacific Fleet.

Performance 23 knots at 23,000 shaft horsepowerĪrmament Main Twelve (2x2, 8x1) 152mm guns

Specifications 6,645 tons displacement, standard

Oleg, 1905 Construction Admiralty Shipyard Saint Petersburg, Russia

Oleg gameplay world of warships