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One of the few foreign-built battleships of the Imperial Russian Navy, Retvizan was built in America around the turn of the 20th century. She was sent to the Far East in support of Russia's ambitions there and the Japanese did not take kindly to the increasing Russian threat to their own ambitions and mounted a surprise attack in February 1904. Retvizan was torpedoed during that initial attack, but was repaired and participated in several of the early naval battles of the Russo-Japanese War before being sunk by Japanese land-based artillery during the Siege of Port Arthur. She was raised and repaired for service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship participated in the search for the German East Asia Squadron at the beginning of World War I, but otherwise did little of note during the war. Hizen, as she had been renamed, also supported the Japanese intervention in the Russian Civil War in 1918. She was disarmed in 1922 to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty and sunk two years later as a target.--
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Article promoted Hawkeye7 ( talk) 11:54, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
One of the few foreign-built battleships of the Imperial Russian Navy, Retvizan was built in America around the turn of the 20th century. She was sent to the Far East in support of Russia's ambitions there and the Japanese did not take kindly to the increasing Russian threat to their own ambitions and mounted a surprise attack in February 1904. Retvizan was torpedoed during that initial attack, but was repaired and participated in several of the early naval battles of the Russo-Japanese War before being sunk by Japanese land-based artillery during the Siege of Port Arthur. She was raised and repaired for service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship participated in the search for the German East Asia Squadron at the beginning of World War I, but otherwise did little of note during the war. Hizen, as she had been renamed, also supported the Japanese intervention in the Russian Civil War in 1918. She was disarmed in 1922 to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty and sunk two years later as a target.--
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