Russian battleship Gangut (1911)

Gangut at anchor in Helsinki, 1915
History
Russian Empire
Name	Gangut
Namesake	Battle of Gangut
Builder	Admiralty Works, Saint Petersburg
Laid down	16 June 1909[Note 1]
Launched	20 October 1911
Commissioned	11 January 1915
Soviet Union
Name	Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya
Namesake	October Revolution
Acquired	November 1917
Renamed	27 June 1925
Reclassified	24 July 1954
Stricken	17 February 1956
Nickname(s)	Oktyabrina
Honors and awards	Order of the Red Banner 22 July 1944
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Gangut-class battleship
Displacement	24,800 tonnes (24,400 long tons; 27,300 short tons)
Length	181.2 m (594 ft)
Beam	26.9 m (88 ft)
Draft	8.99 m (29.5 ft)
Propulsion	4-shaft Parsons steam turbines 25 Yarrow boilers 52,000 shp (38,776 kW) (on trials)
Speed	24.1 knots (44.6 km/h; 27.7 mph) (on trials)
Range	3,200 nautical miles (5,900 km; 3,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	1,149
Armament	4 × triple 12 in (305 mm) guns 16 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns 1 × single 3 in (76 mm) AA gun 4 × 17.7 in (450 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor	Waterline belt: 125–225 mm (4.9–8.9 in) Deck: 12–50 mm (0.47–1.97 in) Turrets: 76–203 mm (3.0–8.0 in) Barbettes: 75–150 mm (3.0–5.9 in) Conning tower: 100–254 mm (3.9–10.0 in)

Gangut (Russian: Гангут) was both the lead ship of the Gangut-class dreadnoughts of the Imperial Russian Navy built before World War I and the last of her class to be completed. She was named after the Russian victory over the Swedish Navy in the Battle of Gangut in 1714. She was completed during the winter of 1914–1915, but was not ready for combat until mid-1915. Her role was to defend the mouth of the Gulf of Finland against the Germans, who never tried to enter, so she spent her time training and providing cover for minelaying operations. Her crew joined the general mutiny of the Baltic Fleet after the February Revolution and joined the Bolsheviks in 1918. She was laid up in 1918 for lack of manpower and not recommissioned until 1925, by which time she had been renamed Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya (Russian: Октябрьская революция: October Revolution).

She was reconstructed between 1931 and 1934 with new boilers, fire-control systems and greatly enlarged superstructures. During the Winter War she bombarded Finnish coastal artillery positions once. Her anti-aircraft armament was greatly reinforced in early 1941, just before Operation Barbarossa. She provided gunfire support against the Germans during the Siege of Leningrad despite being bombed three times and under repair for a year. Retained on active duty after the war she became a training ship in 1954 before being struck off the Navy List in 1956 and slowly scrapped.
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