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Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (1914)
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- For other uses of this term, see Petropavlovsk.
- See also: Petropavlovsk class battleship (1897)
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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: | 4 shaft Parsons type steam turbines, 25 Yarrow type boilers 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. She was later renamed into Marat.
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. Stepan Petrichenko served as an engineer there and led the anarcho-syndicalist Soviet Republic of Naissaar (1918) and the anti-Bolshevik Kronstadt rebellion (1921).
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 during an air attack on Kronstadt harbor in the Leningrad area. Rudel managed a direct hit to the bow with a 1,000 kg bomb. Even so, the wrecked Marat continued in action as a floating battery for the remainder of the siege.
Marat was raised in 1950 and served as the training ship Volkhov until finally being scrapped in 1952.
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