soviet cruiser soviet light cruiser originally named memory mercury class protected cruiser built imperial_russian_navy saw service world war black_sea survived russian civil war heavily damaged repaired service training cruiser reclassified provided gunfire support transported troops siege siege winter damaged repair german air attack july disarmed point towed mouth river sunk october description normally displaced long tons ship overall length metres beam metres mean draft metres powered vertical triple expansion steam engines driving shaft developed total shaft horsepower gave maximum speed knots mph engines powered coal fired belleville boilers ship range nautical miles speed knots mph crew consisted officers men ship rearmed world war fourteen caliber pattern guns single mounts mounted casemates anti aircraft armament consisted millimeter guns mounted submerged millimeter torpedo tubes broadside armored deck casemates millimeters thick armor conning tower millimetres thick service history crew pledged allegiance november soon october revolution occupation early led lay march guns stripped equip armoured trains captured germans left barracks ship renamed september formally handed navy end world war withdrawal powers fell hands whites support triple november engines april order british whites temporarily lost control damaged explosion whites abandoned fell soviet hands spent years repair required parts material sisters damaged given proper revolutionary december recommissioned june refitted training cruiser lost boilers converted classrooms waist guns replaced obsolete guns submerged broadside torpedo tubes removed refit collided seriously damaged forecastle ship sources unclear rearmed probably wasn late 1930s probably forward removed landed guns exchange modern suite anti aircraft guns single single single machine guns modified carry mines speed reduced knots world war company cruisers number destroyers laid defensive barrage protecting base june destroyers assigned cooperate august spent month bombarding romanian positions coast defenses siege escorted number convoys besieged city delivered supplies january ferried troops supplies months badly damaged german air attack march able continue power damaged july moved shortly severely damaged sunk german air attack july deemed non disarmed august september guns forming coast defense batteries sunk refloated point october towed mouth river north sunk
Soviet cruiser Komintern