Nemaro-class battleship
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Nemaro-class battleship |
| Builders: | Makedonian Naval Foundary |
| Operators: |
 Navy of the Syaran Republic |
| Preceded by: | None |
| Succeeded by: | Republic-class battleship |
| In commission: | 1895-1918 |
| Planned: | 6 |
| Completed: | 6 |
| Cancelled: | 0 |
| Lost: | 6 |
| Retired: | 0 |
| Preserved: | 0 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Battleship |
| Displacement: | 11,370 t (11,190 long tons) |
| Length: | 114.46 m (375 ft 6 in) |
| Beam: | 20.4 m (66 ft 11 in) |
| Draft: | 8.28 m (27 ft 2 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed: | 17 knots |
| Range: | 2,805 nautical miles |
| Complement: | 670 crew |
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The Nemaro-class battleship was a series of Syaran pre-dreadnaught battleships, and the first battleship design built by the Republic of Syara. Named after the ancient battlefield of Nemaro, the class was intended to provide the Navy of the Syaran Republic with an advantage at sea over the Ruvelkan Socialist Republic, Æþurheim, and Górska, which at the time were considered the most likely threats to the Republic.
A total of six Nemaro-class battelships were constructed from 1893-1898; Fortitude of Faith, Solemn and Sacred, Spirit of Unity, Heart of Hope, Lament for Rhexenor, Pride of Kydonia. The class sawextensive service in the Third Chryse War, and more limited service in the Syaran-Ruvelkan War. The surviving ships were slated to be decommissioned by 1916. The outbreak of the Divide War forced the ships back into service, but they were badly outclassed by the dreadnought battleships fielded by the Cacertian Royal Navy. Fortitude of Faith, Spirit of Unity, and Pride of Kydonia were sunk in 1917, while the Heart of Hope was later beached in 1918. Lament for Rhexenor was heavily damaged towards the end of the war and was later broken up for scrap. Solemn and Sacred was initially preserved as a museum ship but was pressed back to active duty during the Siduri War for convoy defense. It was later sold and broken up in 1941 during the Broken Years.