An item referred that she sunk to depth of 96’ in the summer in the Baltic Sea near Wyborg when she struck a uncharted rock. She was lying on one side on a soft soil in which she already disappeared around 20 feet . The Swedish Neptun salvage company of Stockholm offered to salvage the ship for 950.000 rubles on the condition that if her efforts failed the government would pay a compensation of maximum 1.000.000 crones. The Russian cabinet accepted this tender and the efforts already started.
Strangely enough published the edition of the 9th an item dated Stockholm 1 August that the salvage company managed to get her upside again but stopped further efforts due to the worst condition of the ship.
The newspaper Java-bode dated 6 August reported that she returned from gun practices with windlessness around 17.00 o’clock when off Trangsund she started with swinging caused by a breeze steaming on half power when she truck the rock. This newspaper suggested that her sinking was caused by or her worse condition of by her worse building despite she was one of the newest Russian warships according to the latest demands.
Note
1. Laid down at the shipyard New Admiralty in 1886, launched in October four years later according to Conway;s All the world’s fighting ships 1860-1905 although Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battleship_Gangut_(1888) reports that she was laid down on 29 October 1888 and launched on 3 July 1893 and completed in 1894. With a displacement of 6.590 tons were her dimensions 88,32 (waterline0 x 18,90 x 6,40 (maximum) metres or 289’6” x 62’x 
