Potemkin
An item London, England 20th referred to the Daily Telegraph reporting that Odessa [Ukraine] a day earlier was bombarded by the battleship (1) lying there and which was controlled by mutineers. The fleet commanded by vice admiral Krieger and which was to support the town was still out of sight. It left Sevastopol on Wednesday at 20.00 o’clock consisted of the battleships Trisviatittelia, Dvenadzat, Apostolov, Rostislav and Sinop, de cruiser Kazarsky and some torpedo boats.
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1. Pre-dreadnought battleship Kniaz Potemkin Tavricheskiy, 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 Crimea 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.
