russian battleship russian battleship russian class dreadnoughts built world war imperial_russian_navy russian class dreadnoughts named russian victory british french siege ship completed winter ready combat role defend mouth germans tried enter spent time training providing cover operations crew joined general mutiny february revolution dreadnought available years october revolution bombarded garrison fort supported light forces operating british ships supporting later crew joined rebellion renamed rebellion crushed reconstructed represented soviet_union years later bombarded finnish coastal artillery position winter war shortly anti aircraft armament upgraded germans invaded june provided gunfire support soviet troops september germans approached later month bow blown sank shallow water hits kilogram bombs detonated forward magazine refloated months later stationary battery providing gunfire support siege plans reconstruct war bow sister accepted formally cancelled renamed nearby river served stationary training ship stricken broken design meters long waterline meters long overall beam meters draft meters centimeters designed displacement tonnes long tons load long tons designed displacement long tons machinery built parsons type steam turbine sets drove propellers engine rooms located turrets compartments outer compartments high pressure ahead reverse turbine wing propeller shaft central engine room low pressure ahead astern turbines cruising turbines driving center shafts engines total designed output shaft horsepower produced shp sister speed trials november gave speed knots mph small tube boilers provided steam engines designed working pressure standard kpa psi boiler fitted oil mixed oil coal burning arranged groups forward group consisted boiler rooms second turret foremost boilers second rear group second turrets comprised compartments boilers load carried long tons coal long tons fuel oil provided range nautical miles speed knots main armament consisted dozen inch pattern caliber guns mounted triple turrets distributed length ship russians believe superfiring turrets offered advantage discounted value fire believed superfiring turrets fire lower turret muzzle blast problems believed distributing turrets associated magazines length ship improved ship sixteen inch caliber pattern guns mounted casemates secondary battery intended defend ship torpedo boats completed single inch caliber anti aircraft gun mounted quarterdeck guns probably added course world war details lacking conway says millimeter guns added roofs end turrets war inch submerged torpedo tubes mounted torpedoes tube service built saint_petersburg keel laid june launched september entered service january months start world war reached assigned sister provided distant cover operations november december saw action kind crew joined general mutiny march idle sailors received word february revolution saint_petersburg treaty brest required soviets evacuate naval base march ships interned newly independent finland frozen sisters led group ships march reached days later known ice voyage dreadnought belonging soviets provided cover smaller ships raiding missions fired support russian destroyer taken bait laid british forces supporting british destroyer appeared operating soviets sortied attack number british destroyers positioned sweep soviets retreated speed opened fire walker yards hit walker twice inflicting minor damage wounding sailors british destroyers eventually got close soviet coastal artillery minefields days later pre dreadnought battleship bombarded garrison fired fewer inch shells garrison surrendered june promised lives subsequently order machine august claimed torpedoed action night attack harbor fact damaged crew joined rebellion march crushed renamed honor french revolutionary leader march primary rangefinder moved platform foremast mounted inch guns roofs fore aft turrets partially reconstructed fall april obvious external change elaborate forward superstructure needed house new fire control instruments fire control director meter positioned tubular foremast meter rangefinder added rear superstructure forward funnel lengthened meters angled backwards attempt exhaust gases away control gunnery spaces added mainmast handle flying boat imported germany stored turret aircraft catapult fitted aircraft land water forecastle added bow given sheer improve sea keeping abilities turrets overhauled guns replaced new meter installed turret boilers converted burn fuel oil powerful boilers allowed forward boilers removed space freed anti aircraft ammunition control spaces cruising turbines removed simplified ship machinery small cost power changes increased displacement tonnes long tons load overall length meters metacentric height increased meters designed meters mainly carried fuel double coal high sides ship weight added world war including increase thickness turret roofs millimeters decreased metacentric height meters unsatisfactory plans reconstruct cancelled germans attacked took britain participation winter war minimal bombarded finnish inch coast defense guns time high explosive shells early anti aircraft armament reinforced exchanged elderly inch guns modern millimeter guns twin mounts mounted quarter deck magazines guns situated casemates beam lost guns point automatic millimeter guns added additions boosted displacement tonnes long tons load sailed shortly soviets occupied estonia returned june days german invasion russia began opened fire troop positions september lightly damaged german centimeter guns september sunk september near simultaneous hits kilogram bombs near forward superstructure caused explosion forward magazine turret blew superstructure forward funnel starboard demolished forward hull frames men killed ship gradually settled meters water sinking commonly credited pilot iii dropped bombs rear ship later refloated floating battery guns removed initially turrets second turret repaired autumn fired total inch shells siege december granite millimeters thick nearby harbor walls laid decks reinforce deck protection transverse bulkhead built frame space filled concrete prevent sinking original bulkhead resumed original war plans reconstruct bow accepted formally cancelled june renamed nearby river november served stationary training ship stricken september ship subsequently broken
Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (1911)