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Russian battleship Gangut (1909)

Russian battleship Gangut (1909)

"Gangut" (Russian: линейный корабль "Гангут") was a Russian, later Soviet battleship, named after the Battle of Gangut and giving its name to the "Gangut" class of battleships. The battleship was renamed on 27 June 1925 to "Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya" (Russian: линейный корабль "Октябрьская революция", lineyny korabl "October Revolution"), named after the Russian October Revolution.

Development

The ship was laid down on 3 June 1909 in the Admiralty Shipyard at St. Petersburg and launched on 24 September 1911.

Operational service

At the end of November 1914 it was attached to the 2nd squadron of the Baltic Fleet battleships, stationed mainly in Helsinki, Finland.

In December 1939, during the Winter War with Finland, the ship attacked "Fort Saarenpää" in the Finnish coast, but failed to destroy it despite several attempts. In 1941 the ship was moved from Tallinn to Kronstadt and at the end of September to Leningrad. In 1941—1945, commanded by M. Z. Moskalenko, N. A. Petrischev and S. D. Soloukhin, it fired 1,140 shells of the main guns in defense of the besieged city of Leningrad. On 22 July 1944 the battleship was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and henceforth was referred to as Red Banner Battleship "October Revolution".

After 1954 it was used as a training ship. In 1956 the ship was decommissioned. She was scrapped in 1959. Its anchors and antiaircraft guns are installed as monuments in the city park of Kronstadt.

ee also

* Russian battleship Gangut (1888)

References

* [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmore/russia/battleships/gangut2/gangut.html page in English]


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