russian battleship russian lead ship class dreadnoughts imperial_russian_navy built world war class completed named russian victory completed winter ready combat role defend mouth germans tried enter spent time training providing cover operations crew joined general mutiny february revolution joined laid lack manpower recommissioned time renamed russian october revolution reconstructed new boilers fire control systems greatly enlarged winter war bombarded finnish coastal artillery positions time anti aircraft armament greatly reinforced early operation provided gunfire support germans siege despite bombed times repair year retained active duty war training ship struck navy list slowly scrapped design meters long waterline meters long overall beam meters draft meters centimeters designed displacement tonnes long tons short tons load long tons short tons designed displacement long tons short tons machinery built parsons type steam turbines drove propellers engine rooms located turrets transverse 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 value fire believing 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 added roofs end turrets war inch submerged torpedo tubes mounted torpedoes tube service built saint_petersburg keel laid june launched september end october collided sister delayed trials scheduled november late december entered service january reached assigned sister provided distant cover operations south august russian dreadnought ventured world war ran aground september suffered minor damage minor mutiny broke november executive officer refused feed crew traditional meal meat return captain issue dinner meat restored order ship november december sister provided distant cover operations saw action kind crew joined general mutiny march idle sailors received word february revolution saint_petersburg treaty brest required soviets evacuate base march interned newly independent finland frozen sisters led group ships march reached days later known ice voyage laid november lack manpower renamed russian october revolution june refitted recommissioned march began partial reconstruction october incorporating lessons earlier sisters tubular tower mast replaced larger structure fire control director equipped meter positioned aft superstructure enlarged new structure built forward director required mainmast meters forward leave room large boat cranes mounted mainmast funnel curved rear angled like turret received italian meter roof armor increased millimeter thickness new forecastle fitted like improve millimeter anti aircraft guns added roofs fore aft turrets old boilers replaced dozen oil fired boilers originally intended class battlecruiser space saved add longitudinal watertight bulkhead greatly improved underwater protection original mechanical fire control computer upgraded copy fire control computer designated soviets copy stable vertical changes increased displacement tonnes long tons short tons load overall length meters metacentric height decreased meters designed meters result enlarged finished reconstruction august participation winter war limited bombardment finnish inch coast defense guns december failed inflict permanent damage driven near misses sailed shortly soviets occupied estonia refitted february march anti aircraft armament reinforced twin mounts mounted quarter deck magazines guns probably situated casemates beam lost guns automatic millimeter guns added guns middle turrets fore aft twin single millimeter machine guns directors fitted large cranes replaced smaller ones taken german heavy cruiser room anti aircraft guns june germans invaded soviet_union forced sail advancing germans opened fire troop positions september channel probably landed millimeter guns following day use ashore badly damaged september bomb hits bow knocked turrets sent october repairs soviets took advantage time add guns twin gun mount february april hit heavy medium bombs dropped night april bombs april repairs completed november quadruple gun mount added september supported soviet forces siege offensive january offensive june received air warning radar july awarded order red banner reclassified school battleship july stricken february slowly scrapped hulk survived
Russian battleship Gangut (1911)