Russian battleship Gangut (1909)

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Career (Russian Empire)

Name:	Gangut
Builder:	Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Laid down:	3 June 1909
Launched:	24 September 1911
Status:	Renamed Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya and integrated into the Soviet Navy.
Career (Soviet Union)
Name:	Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya
Decommissioned:	1956
Fate:	Scrapped in 1959
General characteristics
Class and type:	Gangut-class battleship
Displacement:	original: 23,000 tonnes modernized: 26,692 tons
Length:	184.9 metres (607 ft)
Beam:	26.9 metres (88 ft)
Draft:	9.5 metres (31 ft)
Propulsion:	steam engines, 60,600 hp
Speed:	23 knots (43 km/h)
Range:	2,625 nautical miles (4,862 km)
Complement:	1,126
Armament:	12 × 305 mm 10 × 120 mm (originally 16) 6 × 76.2 mm 14 × 37 mm 10 × 12.7 mm machine guns 89 × 7.62 mm machine guns 4 × 450 mm torpedo tubes

For other uses, see Gangut.

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 battleship was renamed on 27 June 1925 to Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya (Russian: линейный корабль "Октябрьская революция", lineyny korabl "October Revolution"), named after the Russian October Revolution.

1 Development
2 Operational service
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Development

The ship was laid down on 3 June 1909 in the Admiralty Shipyard at St. Petersburg and launched on 24 September 1911.

[edit] Operational service

At the end of November 1914 it was attached to the 2nd squadron of the Baltic Fleet battleships, stationed mainly in Helsinki, Finland.

In December 1939, during the Winter War with 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] See also

Russian battleship Gangut (1888)

[edit] References

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