Russian battleship Imperatritsa Mariya

Imperatritsa Mariya at anchor in Sevastopol
History
Imperial Russian Navy
Name	Imperatritsa Mariya
Namesake	Maria Feodorovna
Operator	Imperial Russian Navy
Builder	Russud Shipyard, Nikolayev
Laid down	30 October 1911[Note 1]
Launched	19 October 1913
In service	10 June 1915
Out of service	Sunk by internal explosion, 20 October 1916
Stricken	21 November 1925
Fate	Scrapped beginning 1926
General characteristics
Class and type	Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleship
Displacement	23,413 long tons (23,789 t)
Length	168 m (551 ft 2 in)
Beam	27.43 m (90 ft 0 in)
Draft	8.36 m (27 ft 5 in)
Installed power	26,000 shp (19,000 kW) 20 Yarrow boilers
Propulsion	4 × Shafts 4 × Parsons steam turbines
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Range	1,640 nmi (3,040 km; 1,890 mi) at 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Complement	1,213
Armament	4 × triple 12 in (305 mm) guns 20 × single 130 mm (5.1 in) guns 4 × single 75 mm (3 in) AA guns 2 × twin 17.7 in (450 mm) submerged torpedo tubes
Armor	Waterline belt: 125–262.5 mm (4.92–10.33 in) Deck: 9–50 mm (0.35–1.97 in) Turrets: 250 mm (9.8 in) Barbettes: 250 mm (9.8 in) Conning tower: 300 mm (11.8 in)

Imperatritsa Mariya (Russian: Императрица Мария: Empress Maria) was the lead ship of her class of three dreadnoughts built for the Imperial Russian Navy during World War I. She served with the Black Sea Fleet during the war and covered older pre-dreadnought battleships as they bombarded Ottoman facilities in 1915. The ship engaged the Ottoman light cruiser Midilli,(formerly the German SMS Breslau) several times without inflicting anything more serious than splinter damage. Imperatritsa Mariya was sunk at anchor in Sevastopol by a magazine explosion in late 1916, killing 228 crewmen. She was subsequently raised, but her condition was very poor. She was finally scrapped in 1926, after the end of the Russian Civil War.
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