Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (1914)

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Career

Type:	Battleship
Class	Gangut class
Ordered:
Laid down:	1909
Launched:	1911
Commissioned:	1914
Fate:	Sunk on September 23, 1941, raised, scrapped in 1952
General Characteristics
Displacement:	26,170 tons
Length:	184.8 m
Beam:	26.9 m
Draught:	9.3 m
Propulsion:	Steam engines kW (61,100 hp)
Speed:	23.4 knots
Range:
Complement:	1,286
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

The Petropavlovsk (Russian: Петропавловск) was a Russian battleship of the Gangut Class.

The Petropavlovsk was built by Baltic Yard, St.Petersburg, laid down 1909, launched in November 1911, and completed in December 1914. Originally named after the battle of Petropavlovsk of the Crimean war. She was sunk at her moorings by the British Royal Navy HM Coastal Motor Boat 4 under Augustus Agar during a combined sea and air attack by British forces during the Russian Civil War, but salvaged and repaired. Renamed Marat after the French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat in 1921, the ship served in the Soviet Baltic during the World War II Siege of Leningrad. She was again sunk at her moorings by German Stuka pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel on 23 September 1941. The wreck continued in action as a floating battery for the remainder of the siege. She was raised in 1950 and served as the training ship Volkhov until being scrapped in 1952.