Soviet battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya
Service
- as Gangut11 January 1915 — in service2,193 days of the war
- as Oktyabrskaya RevolutsiyaNovember 1917 — 17 February 19562,193 days of the war
- Name
- Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya
- Namesake
- Battle of Gangut
- Builder
- Admiralty Works, Saint Petersburg
- Laid down
- 16 June 1909
- Launched
- 20 October 1911
- Commissioned
- 11 January 1915
- Struck
- 17 February 1956
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 24,408 long tons (24,800 t)
- Length
- 181.2 m (594.5 ft)
- Beam
- 26.9 m (88.3 ft)
- Draught
- 8.99 m (29.5 ft)
- Speed
- 24.1 knots (44.6 km/h, 27.7 mph)
- Range
- 3,200 nmi (5,926 km)
- Complement
- 1,149
- Main gun
- 305 mm (12 in)
Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya was a Gangut-class battleship. She was named for Battle of Gangut. Admiralty Works, Saint Petersburg laid her keel on 16 June 1909. Launched on 20 October 1911, she entered service on 11 January 1915.
Her class ran to three ships. The class followed the Andrei Pervozvanny-class battleship and was succeeded by the Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleship.
She displaced 24,408 long tons. She measured 181.2 m (594 ft) long with a beam of 26.9 m (88 ft). Her designed speed was 24.1 knots, and she carried a complement of 1,149.
Her main battery was twelve 305 mm (12 in) guns in four triple mountings.
She then passed to the Soviet Navy, serving as Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya from November 1917. She was in commission for 4,386 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 17 February 1956.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4-shaft Parsons steam turbines
- 25 Yarrow boilers
- 52000 shp (on trials)
- Armament
- 4 × triple 12 in guns
- 16 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 1 × single 3 in AA gun
- 4 × 17.7 in torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Waterline belt: 125 - 225 mm
- Deck: 12 - 50 mm
- Turrets: 76 - 203 mm
- Barbettes: 75 - 150 mm
- Conning tower: 100 - 254 mm
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Soviet battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Arkhiv fotografiy korabley russkogo i sovetskogo VMF. (Архив фотографий кораблей русского и советского ВМФ.) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons