Russian battleship Sevastopol (1911)

Sevastopol during World War I
History
Russian Empire
Name	Sevastopol
Namesake	Siege of Sevastopol
Builder	Baltic Works, Saint Petersburg
Laid down	16 June 1909[Note 1]
Launched	10 July 1911
In service	30 November 1914
Soviet Union
Name	Parizhskaya Kommuna
Namesake	Paris Commune
Acquired	November 1917
Recommissioned	17 September 1925
Decommissioned	November 1918
Renamed	Parizhskaya Kommuna 21 March 1921 Sevastopol 31 May 1943
Stricken	17 February 1956
Nickname(s)	Parizhanka (Parisienne)
Honours and awards	Order of the Red Banner 8 July 1945
Fate	Scrapped in 1957
General characteristics
Class and type	Gangut-class battleship
Displacement	24,800 t (24,400 long tons; 27,300 short tons)
Length	181.2 m (594 ft 6 in)
Beam	26.9 m (88 ft 3 in)
Draft	8.99 m (29 ft 6 in)
Installed power	52,000 shp (38,776 kW) (on trials)
Propulsion	4-shaft Parsons steam turbines 25 Yarrow boilers
Speed	24.1 knots (44.6 km/h; 27.7 mph) (on trials)
Range	3,200 nmi (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 After 1941 refit: 4 × 12-inch (305 mm)/52 guns 12 × 1 – 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns 3 × 1 – 3-inch (76 mm) AA guns 16 × 1 – 1.5-inch (37 mm) AA gun 12 × 1 – 0.50-inch (12.7 mm) DShKM AA machine guns
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)

Sevastopol (Russian: Севастополь) was the first ship completed of the Gangut-class battleships of the Imperial Russian Navy, built before World War I. The Ganguts were the first class of Russian dreadnoughts. She was named after the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. 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 later that year. She was laid up in 1918 for lack of manpower, but her crew joined the Kronstadt rebellion of 1921. She was renamed Parizhskaya Kommuna after the rebellion was crushed to commemorate the Paris Commune and to erase the ship's betrayal of the Communist Party.

She was recommissioned in 1925, and refitted in 1928 in preparation for her transfer to the Black Sea the following year. Parizhskaya Kommuna and the cruiser Profintern ran into a severe storm in the Bay of Biscay that severely damaged Parizhskaya Kommuna's false bow. They had to put into Brest for repairs, but reached Sevastopol in January 1930. Parizhskaya Kommuna was comprehensively reconstructed in two stages during the 1930s that replaced her boilers, upgraded her guns, augmented her anti-aircraft armament, modernized her fire-control systems and gave her anti-torpedo bulges. During World War II she provided gunfire support during the Siege of Sevastopol and related operations until she was withdrawn from combat in April 1942 when the risk from German aerial attack became too great. She was retained on active duty after the war until she became a training ship in 1954. She was broken up in 1956–1957.
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