Soviet battleship Parizhskaya Kommuna
Service
- as Sevastopol30 November 1914 — in service2,193 days of the war
- as Parizhskaya KommunaNovember 1917 — November 1918
- 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.
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
- 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
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Soviet battleship Parizhskaya Kommuna on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: anonimus — http://flot.sevastopol.info/photos/photo_linkor/sevastopol_01.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons