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Wednesday, 19 October 2016

Anonymous Russian destroyer arrived at Sulina, Romania to stop mutiny on board of the Potemkin according to the Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië dated 7 July 1905




An item dated Kustendji 6th reported that again a destroyer arrived at Sulina, Romania searching for the Potemkin.(1). Her crew nearly existed of just officers.

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1. Pre-dreadnought battleship Kniaz Potemkin Tavricheskiy, her crew mutined in 1905, renamed 1905 Panteleimon, renamed 1917 Potemin-Tavicheskiy and renamed 1917 Borets za Svobodu. Laid down at the Nikolaev Admiralty Shipyard on 10 October 1898, launched in 9 October 1900, completed in 1905, obsolete by 1915, reserve at Sevastopol and decommissioned in March 1918, captured by Germans in May 1918, handed over to Allies in November 1918, machinery destroyed by British to prevent of the Bolsheviks in 1919, out of service on 19 April 1919, left behind by the White Russians when they left the Crimean in 1920, broken up in 1923 and not earlier officially stricken as on 21 November 1925. Crew numbered 731 men (included 26 officers). Armament consisted of 2x2-30,5cm/12” guns, 16x1-15,2cm/6” guns, 14x1-7,5cm/3.0” guns, 6x1-4,7cm/1.9” guns and 5-38,1cm/15” torpedo tubes.