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Russian battleship Sevastopol (1911)
Scrapped
Sevastopol was the first completed ship of the Gangut class, the first dreadnoughts built for the Imperial Russian Navy. The Gangut class is also sometimes called the Sevastopol class after her, and she remained in active or reserve service for an unusually long span, from 1914 into the mid-1950s, under two different flags and two different names.
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- Wikipedia: Gangut-class battleshipArticle
Detailed class-wide reference covering design history, armament, protection, and full service history of all four sisters including Sevastopol/Parizhskaya Kommuna.
- Wikipedia: Russian battleship Sevastopol (1911)Article
Primary reference for the individual ship's specifications, construction dates, and World War I service.
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- Wikimedia Commons: Sevastopol battleship.jpgPhoto
Public domain historical photograph of the battleship used as the reference image for this record.
History
Specifications
As built she displaced 24,800 tonnes at load, was 181.2 m long overall with a beam of 26.9 m and a draft of 8.99 m. Her main battery was a dozen 12-inch (305 mm) guns in four triple turrets spread along the hull rather than in superfiring pairs, a distinctly Russian design choice, backed by sixteen 120 mm casemate guns and, later, torpedo tubes and light AA guns. Four Parsons steam turbines and 25 Yarrow boilers gave a designed speed in the low 20s of knots, though trials on sister ships reached over 24 knots.
Service history
Commissioned in late 1914, she served with the Baltic Fleet's First Battleship Brigade during World War I, mainly covering minelaying sorties in the Gulf of Finland and grounding once near Liepāja in 1915. Her crew took part in the 1921 Kronstadt rebellion, after which the ship was renamed Parizhskaya Kommuna (Paris Commune) and in 1929 transferred to the Black Sea Fleet. During World War II she bombarded German and Romanian forces around Sevastopol and in support of the Kerch offensive, reverted to her original name in 1943, and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner in 1945 before being reclassified as a training ship in 1954 and scrapped after being stricken in 1956.
Notable facts
Her unusual four-turret, non-superfiring arrangement reflected Russian engineers' skepticism that superfiring turrets offered real benefits, a design quirk that distinguishes Gangut-class models from contemporary foreign dreadnoughts. Later in her career she received torpedo bulges that substantially increased displacement and reduced speed, another visible change a modeler building a late-war configuration should account for.