Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (1914)
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| Career (Russian Empire) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | Petropavlovsk |
| Builder: | Baltic Works, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Laid down: | 1909 |
| Launched: | 1911 |
| Commissioned: | 1914 |
| Status: | Renamed Marat and integrated into the Soviet Navy. |
| Career (Soviet Union) |  |
| Name: | Marat |
| Namesake: | Jean-Paul Marat |
| Fate: | Sunk on September 23, 1941, raised, scrapped in 1952 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Gangut-class battleship |
| Displacement: | 27,170 tons |
| Length: | 184.8 metres (606 ft) |
| Beam: | 26.9 metres (88 ft) |
| Draft: | 9.3 metres (31 ft) |
| Propulsion: | four shaft Parsons steam turbines, 25 Yarrow boilers, 61,100 hp |
| Speed: | 23.4 knots (43.3 km/h) |
| Complement: | 1,286 |
| Armament: | 12× 305 mm 10× 120 mm (originally 16) 6× 76.2 mm 14× 37 mm 10× 12.7 mm 89× 7.62 mm 4× 450 mm torpedo tubes |
The Petropavlovsk (Russian: Петропавловск) was a Russian battleship of the Gangut class. She was later renamed the Marat.
The Petropavlovsk was built by the Baltic Shipyard, in St.Petersburg. Her keel was laid down in 1909, and she was launched in November 1911. The battleship was completed in December, 1914. She was originally named after the Siege of Petropavlovsk of the Crimean war.
Stepan Petrichenko served as an engineer on the ship and led the anarcho-syndicalist Soviet Republic of Naissaar (1918), and the anti-Bolshevik Kronstadt rebellion (1921).
Renamed the Marat after the French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat in 1921, the ship served in the Soviet Baltic Fleet during World War II Siege of Leningrad. She was sunk at her moorings by German Stuka pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel on 23 September 1941 during an air attack on Kronstadt harbor in the Leningrad area. Rudel managed a direct hit to the bow with a 1,000 kg bomb. Even so, the wrecked Marat continued in action as a floating battery for the remainder of the siege.
The Marat was raised in 1950 and renamed as the training ship Volkhov until finally being scrapped in 1952.
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