Russian battleship Potemkin

Panteleimon at sea, 1906
History
Russian Empire
Name:	1904: Kniaz Potemkin Tavricheskiy 1905: Panteleimon 1917: Potemkin-Tavricheskiy 1917: Borets za Svobodu
Namesake:	Grigory Potemkin Saint Pantaleon
Builder:	Nikolaev Admiralty Shipyard
Laid down:	10 October 1898
Launched:	9 October 1900
Completed:	1905
Decommissioned:	March 1918
Out of service:	19 April 1919
Struck:	21 November 1925
Fate:	Scrapped, 1923
General characteristics
Type:	Pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement:	12,480 long tons (12,680 t) (designed) 12,900 long tons (13,107 t) (actual)
Length:	378 ft 6 in (115.4 m)
Beam:	73 ft (22.3 m)
Draught:	27 ft (8.2 m)
Installed power:	10,600 ihp (7,900 kW) 22 Belleville boilers
Propulsion:	2 shafts, 2 Vertical triple-expansion steam engines
Speed:	16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Range:	3,200 nautical miles (5,900 km; 3,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	26 officers, 705 enlisted men
Armament:	2 × twin 12 in (305 mm)/40 M1895 naval guns 16 × single 6 in (152 mm)/45 M1892 naval guns 14 × single 75 mm (3.0 in)/50 M1892 Canet guns 6 × single 47 mm (1.9 in)/40 Hotchkiss guns 5 × 15-inch (381 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:	Krupp cemented armour Waterline belt: 9 in (229 mm) Deck: 2–3 in (51–76 mm) Barbettes: 4.2–10 in (107–254 mm) Gun turrets: 10 in (254 mm) Conning tower: 9 in (229 mm) Bulkheads: 7 in (178 mm)

The Russian battleship Potemkin (Russian: Князь Потёмкин Таврический, Kniaz Potyomkin Tavricheskiy, "Prince Potemkin of Tauris") was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet. She became famous when the crew rebelled against the officers in June 1905 (during that year's revolution), which is now viewed as a first step towards the Russian Revolution of 1917. The mutiny later formed the basis of Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 silent film The Battleship Potemkin.

After the mutineers sought asylum in Constanța, Romania, and after the Russians recovered the ship, her name was changed to Panteleimon. She accidentally sank a Russian submarine in 1909 and was badly damaged when she ran aground in 1911. During World War I, Panteleimon participated in the Battle of Cape Sarych in late 1914. She covered several bombardments of the Bosphorus fortifications in early 1915, including one where she was attacked by the Turkish battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim – Panteleimon and the other Russian pre-dreadnoughts present drove her off before she could inflict any serious damage. The ship was relegated to secondary roles after Russia's first dreadnought battleship entered service in late 1915. She was by then obsolete and was reduced to reserve in 1918 in Sevastopol.