Russian battleship Dvenadsat Apostolov
Dvenadsat Apostolov was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy. She entered service in 1893 with the Black Sea Fleet, but was not fully ready until 1894. The ship participated in the failed attempt to recapture the mutinous battleship Potemkin in 1905. Decommissioned and disarmed in 1911, she became an immobile submarine depot ship the following year. She was captured by the Germans in 1918 in Sevastopol and was handed over to the Allies in December.
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Dvenadsat Apostolov was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy. She entered service in 1893 with the Black Sea Fleet, but was not fully ready until 1894. The ship participated in the failed attempt to recapture the mutinous battleship Potemkin in 1905. Decommissioned and disarmed in 1911, she became an immobile submarine depot ship the following year. She was captured by the Germans in 1918 in Sevastopol and was handed over to the Allies in December. Lying immobile in Sevstopol, she was abandoned when the White Russians evacuated the Crimea in 1920. Dvenads at Apostolova was used as a stand-in for the title ship during the 1925 filming of The Battleship Potemskin. The battleship was finally scrapped in 1931 and is now listed as a museum ship in the National Museum of the Russian Navy in St. Petersburg, where she was the only ship of her class ever to be preserved.
She is the only battleship in the world to have been named after a single person, Dvenadzat Apostolov, who served in the Russian Imperial Navy in the early 19th century. The only other battleship of her type was the battleship Vedadz Apatolov which served in World War I and survived the Battle of the Bulge. Her armament consisted of four 12-inch guns in twin-gun barbettes at each end of the ship with four 6-inch guns in a shortened casemate. The four 35-caliber guns were mounted on pivot mounts in the central casemate on the pivot sides of the warship. The guns fired a 731-pound shell at a muzzle velocity of 1,870 fts to a range of 5,570 yards. The hull was subdivided by eleven transverse and one centerline longitudinal watertight bulkheads.
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