Overview
Ekaterina II-class battleship with triple-expansion machinery.
Sinop is associated with Russian Empire and Imperial Russian Navy. It belonged to Ekaterina II class, so the class page provides the shared design history while this page concentrates on the individual ship.
Construction and identity
The available construction record identifies Sinop as built by RoPIT Shipyard, Sevastopol, laid down on 1883-06, launched on 1887-06-01, and completed on 1889.
The ship's documented identity includes service with Imperial Russian Navy.
Service history
Later converted for training/guard duties and remained at Sevastopol into the First World War and Civil War period.
The ship's configuration should be interpreted through the documented class and the dates attached to this individual vessel; equipment should not be assumed to have remained unchanged throughout service.
Class context: Ekaterina II class
The Ekaterina II class comprised the first major battleships built for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet after restrictions on naval construction eased.
As a member of Ekaterina II class, Sinop shared the class's documented design framework and intended roles of Fleet combatant. Individual refits, transfers, and wartime changes belong to this ship only when separately documented.
Later service and disposition
The recorded final status is unknown.
Sinop matters as an individual career within Ekaterina II class, allowing class-wide design history to be separated from this ship's own construction, identities, service, and fate.
Class relationship
This ship is recorded as a member of Ekaterina II class. Shared design history belongs on the class page; this page concentrates on the individual hull where evidence is available.
Sources and further reading
- Russian & Soviet BattleshipsNaval Institute Press
- The Naval Annual 1896J. Griffin & Co.
- Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905Conway Maritime Press
- Imperatritsa Ekaterina II 1886 ↗Agenzia Bozzo · accessed 2026-09-18
- Georgiy Pobedonosets (ship, 1892) collection ↗Wikimedia Commons · accessed 2026-09-18