An item dated Helsinki, Finland 19th referred to an unconfirmed tiding reporting that Finnish coastal batteries at Koivisto, Karelia sunk the Russian 23.000 tons battleship Oktiabrskaya Revolution. A second item reported that the Russian were mislead by the Finnish while they thought that the Finnish batteries had a range of 3 miles and that the Russian ships would be safe on a distance of 4 miles from the coastline. The Finnish placed however guns with a longer and fire at the battleship when that cruised the coast and apparently sunk it.(1)
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1. Laid down as the Gangut by Admiralty Works, St. Petersburg, Russia on 16 June 1909, launched on 20 October 1911, commissioned on 11 January 1915, acquired by the Bolsheviks in November 1917, renamed Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya on 27 June 1925, modernized 1931-1934, reclassified as training ship on 24 July 1954 and finally stricken on 17 February 1956. Of the Gangut-class, consisting of the Gangut (renamed 1925 Oktyabrskaja Revolutsiya , Petropavlovsk (renamed Marat 1921), Sevastopol (renamed Parizhskaya Kommuna in 1921) and Poltava (renamed Frunze 1926), preceded by the Andrei Pervozvanny-class and succeeded by the Imperatritsa Mariya-class.
