The Russian battleship Potemkin was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet. She became famous when the crew rebelled against the officers in June 1905, which is now viewed as a first step towards the Russian Revolution of 1917. She participated in the Battle of Cape Sarych in late 1914. The ship was relegated to secondary roles after Russia’s first dreadnoughts entered service in late 1915. She was abandoned when the Whites evacuated the Crimea in 1920 and was finally scrapped by the Soviets in 1923.
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The Russian battleship Potemkin was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet. She became famous when the crew rebelled against the officers in June 1905, which is now viewed as a first step towards the Russian Revolution of 1917. After the mutineers sought asylum in Constanța, Romania, and after the Russians recovered the ship, her name was changed to Panteleimon. She participated in the Battle of Cape Sarych in late 1914. The ship was relegated to secondary roles after Russia’s first dreadnoughts entered service in late 1915. She was reduced to reserve in 1918 in Sevastopol and was abandoned when the Whites evacuated the Crimea in 1920 and was finally scrapped by the Soviets in 1923. The design process was complicated by numerous changes demanded by various departments of the Naval Technical Committee. It was finally approved on 12 June 1897, although design changes continued to be made that slowed the ship’s construction. Construction of Potemkins began on 27 December 1897 and she was laid down at the Nikolayev Admiralty Shipyard on 10 October 1898. The battleship displaced 12,900 long tons, 420 long tons more than her designed displacement of 12,480 long tons. The ship’s crew consisted of 26 officers and 705 enlisted men. She began sea trials in September 1903 and these continued, off and on, until early 1905 when her gun turrets were completed.
She had a pair of three-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each of which drove one propeller, that had a total designed output of 10,600 indicated horsepower. Twenty-two Belleville boilers provided steam to the engines at a pressure of 15 atm. The ship carried four 40-calibre 12-inch guns in twin turrets in the superstructure. These guns had a maximum elevation of +15° and their rate of fire was very slow, only one round every four minutes. They were derived from those used by the Petropavlovsk-class battleships used by those used in those warships. They had a beam of 73 feet and a maximum draught of 27 feet. She was named in honour of Prince Grigory potemkin, a Russian soldier and statesman. She died in a collision with a German battleship off the coast of Crimea in October 1918. The battlecruiser was captured by the Germans in May 1918 and was handed over to the Allies after the Armistice in November 1918. Her engines were destroyed by the British in 1919 to prevent the advancing Bolsheviks from using them against the White Russians. The ships were scrapped in 1923 and the ship was later converted to convert the boilers to convert to coal. The boilers caused a serious fire on 2 January 1904 that caused the navyers to fire at a cost of 20,100 long tons of coal at full load that provided a speed of 1,200 nautical miles at a full speed of 10 knots.
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