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Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Russian battleship Potemkin destroyed according to the Dutch newspaper Soerabaijasch handelsblad dated 28 October 1905


An item reported that according to tidings received from Odessa, Ukraine the Russian battleship Knjas Potemkin was destroyed, probably by fire.(1)

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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.