High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Retvizan was a Russian pre-Dreadnought battleship which fought in the Russo-Japanese War. She was unique in that many of her components and their actual fabrication was done in the United States for the Imperial Russian Navy. Much of her side armor was forged by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and she was built by the William Cramp and Sons Ship & Engine Building Company of Philadelphia. The armament was made at the Obukhov works in St Petersburg and shipped to America for installation.