Russian battleship Gangut (1909)
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| Career |  |
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| Type: | Battleship |
| Class | Gangut class |
| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | |
| Launched: | June 3, 1909 |
| Commissioned: | September 24, 1911 |
| Fate: | Decommissioned in 1956, scrapped in 1959 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 26,692 tons |
| Length: | 184.9 m |
| Beam: | 26.9 m |
| Draught: | 9.5 m |
| Propulsion: | Steam engines kW (60,600 hp) |
| Speed: | 23 knots |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 1,126 |
| Armament: | 12× 305 mm 10× 120 mm (originally 16) 6× 76.2 mm 14× 37 mm 10× 12.7 mm 89× 7.62 mm 4× 450 mm torpedo tubes |
Gangut (Russian: линейный корабль "Гангут") was a Russian, later Soviet battleship named after the Battle of Gangut and giving its name to the Gangut class of battleships.
The ship was laid down on 3 June 1909 in the Baltic Shipyard at St. Petersburg and launched on 24 September 1911. At the end of November 1914 it was attached to the 2nd squadron of the Baltic Fleet battleships, stationed mainly in Helsinki, Finland.
On 27 June 1925, it was renamed Battleship "October Revolution" (Russian: линейный корабль "Октябрьская революция", lineyny korabl "Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya"), named after the Russian October Revolution.
In December 1939, after Soviet aggression on Finland, the ship attacked Fort Saarenpää in the Finnish coast, but failed to destroy it despite several attempts. In 1941 the ship was moved from Tallinn to Kronstadt and at the end of September to Leningrad. In 1941—1945, commanded by M. Z. Moskalenko, N. A. Petrischev and S. D. Soloukhin, it fired 1,140 shells of the main guns in defense of the besieged city of Leningrad. On 22 July 1944 the battleship was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and henceforth was referred to as Red Banner Battleship "October Revolution".
After 1954 it was used as a training ship. In 1956 the ship was decommissioned. She was scrapped in 1959. Its anchors and antiaircraft guns are installed as monuments in the city park of Kronstadt.
[edit] Characteristics
- Full displacement: original: 23,000 tonnes, modernized: 26,692 tons
- Length: 184.9 m
- Beam: 26.9 m
- Draft: 9.5 m
- Max speed: 23 knots
- Range 2,625 nautical miles
- Armament: twelve 305 mm (12 in) guns, ten (originally sixteen) 120 mm guns, six 76.2 mm guns, fourteen 37 mm guns, ten 12.7 mm and eighty nine 7.62 mm machine guns, four 450 mm torpedo tubes
- Crew: 1,126 men
