Soviet battleship Marat
Petropavlovsk at Helsinki
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 Russian Empire
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| Name: | Petropavlovsk |
| Namesake: | Siege of Petropavlovsk |
| Builder: | Baltic Works, Saint Petersburg |
| Laid down: | 16 June 1909 |
| Launched: | 22 September 1911 |
| Commissioned: | 5 January 1915 |
 Soviet Union
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| Name: | Marat |
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| Acquired: | November 1917 |
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| Struck: | 4 September 1953 |
| Fate: | Scrapped after September 1953 |
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| Class and type: | Gangut-class battleship |
| Displacement: | 24,800 tonnes (24,408 long 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) |
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| Speed: | 24.1 knots (44.6 km/h; 27.7 mph) (on trials) |
| Range: | 3,200 nautical miles (5,900 km; 3,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 1,149 |
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The Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (Russian: Петропавловск) was the third of the four Gangut-class dreadnoughts built before World War I for the Imperial Russian Navy, the first Russian class of dreadnoughts. She was named after the Russian victory over the British and the French in the Siege of Petropavlovsk in 1854. The ship was completed during the winter of 1914–15, 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 of 1917 and she was the only dreadnought available to the Bolsheviks for several years after the October Revolution of 1917. She bombarded the mutinous garrison of Fort Krasnaya Gorka and supported Bolshevik light forces operating against British ships supporting the White Russians in the Gulf of Finland in 1918–19. Later, her crew joined the Kronstadt Rebellion of 1921 and she was renamed Marat after the rebellion was crushed.
Marat was reconstructed from 1928 to 1931 and represented the Soviet Union at the Coronation Naval Review at Spithead in 1937. Two years later, she bombarded a Finnish coastal artillery position during the Winter War once before the Gulf of Finland iced up. Shortly afterwards, her anti-aircraft armament was upgraded. When the Germans invaded on 22 June 1941 she was in Kronstadt and provided gunfire support to Soviet troops in September as the Germans approached Leningrad. Later that month she had her bow blown off and sank in shallow water after two hits by 1,000-kilogram (2,200 lb) bombs that detonated her forward magazine. She was refloated several months later and became a stationary battery, providing gunfire support during the Siege of Leningrad. Plans were made to reconstruct her after the war, using the bow of her sister Frunze, but they were not accepted and were formally cancelled in 1948. She was renamed Volkhov, after the nearby river, in 1950 and served as a stationary training ship until stricken in 1953 and broken up afterwards.
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