Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Battleship

Soviet battleship Parizhskaya Kommuna

Gangut-class battleship

Soviet battleship Parizhskaya Kommuna
anonimus — http://flot.sevastopol.info/photos/photo_linkor/sevastopol_01.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate Russian battleship Sevastopol (1911)

Service

  1. as Sevastopol30 November 1914 — in service2,193 days of the war
  2. Soviet Navy as Parizhskaya KommunaNovember 1917 — November 1918
Gangut-class battleship Particulars
Name
Parizhskaya Kommuna
Namesake
Siege of Sevastopol
Builder
Baltic Works, Saint Petersburg
Laid down
16 June 1909
Launched
10 July 1911
Decommissioned
November 1918
Recommissioned
17 September 1925
Struck
17 February 1956
Fate
Scrapped in 1957 (1957)
Status
Scrapped

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)

Parizhskaya Kommuna was a Gangut-class battleship. The ship was named after Siege of Sevastopol. Her keel was laid at Baltic Works, Saint Petersburg on 16 June 1909. She was launched on 10 July 1911.

Three ships of the class were built. The class followed the Andrei Pervozvanny-class battleship and was succeeded by the Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleship.

Displacement was 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. Her machinery developed 52,000 shp.

She then passed to the Soviet Navy, serving as Parizhskaya Kommuna from November 1917. She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in November 1918. She recommissioned on 17 September 1925. She was struck from the register on 17 February 1956.

She was broken up for scrap in 1957.

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Armament and machinery

Armament and machinery
Propulsion
  • 4-shaft Parsons steam turbines
  • 25 Yarrow boilers
Power
  • 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
  • After 1941 refit:
  • 4 × 12 in/52 guns
  • 12 × 1 – 4.7 in guns
  • 3 × 1 – 3 in AA guns
  • 16 × 1 – 37 mm AA gun
  • 12 × 1 – 12.7 mm DShKM AA machine guns
Armour
  • Waterline belt: 125 - 225 mm
  • Deck: 12 - 50 mm
  • Turrets: 76 - 203 mm
  • Barbettes: 75 - 150 mm
  • Conning tower: 100 - 254 mm

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