Russian battleship Dvenadsat Apostolov

1893 lithograph of Dvenadsat Apostolov
Class overview
NameDvenadsat Apostolov
Operators Imperial Russian Navy
Preceded byImperator Aleksandr II class
Succeeded byNavarin
Built1888–1892
In commission1893–1911
Planned2
Completed1
Cancelled1
Scrapped1
History
Russian Empire
NameDvenadsat Apostolov (Двенадцать апостолов)
NamesakeTwelve Apostles
OperatorImperial Russian Navy
Ordered12 November 1887[Note 1]
BuilderNikolayev Admiralty Shipyard
Laid down21 August 1889
Launched13 September 1890
CompletedDecember 1892
Decommissioned1 April 1911
In service17 June 1893
RenamedBlokshiv No. 8, 4 September 1914
FateSold for scrap, 28 January 1931
General characteristics
TypePre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement8,710 long tons (8,850 t)
Length342 ft (104.2 m) (o/a)
Beam60 ft (18.3 m)
Draft27 ft 6 in (8.4 m)
Installed power
Propulsion2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph)
Range1,900 nmi (3,500 km; 2,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement599
Armament
  • 2 × twin 12 in (305 mm) guns
  • 4 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns
  • 12 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns
  • 4 × five-barrel 37 mm (1.5 in) revolving guns
  • 10 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) guns
  • 6 × 15 in (381 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor

Dvenadsat Apostolov (Russian: Двенадцать апостолов—"Twelve Apostles") was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy, the sole ship of her class. She entered service in 1893 with the Black Sea Fleet, but was not fully ready until 1894. The ship participated in the failed attempt to recapture the mutinous battleship Potemkin in 1905. Decommissioned and disarmed in 1911, Dvenadsat Apostolov became an immobile submarine depot ship the following year. The ship was captured by the Germans in 1918 in Sevastopol and was handed over to the Allies in December. Lying immobile in Sevastopol, she was captured by both sides in the Russian Civil War before she was abandoned when the White Russians evacuated the Crimea in 1920. Dvenadsat Apostolov was used as a stand-in for the title ship during the 1925 filming of The Battleship Potemkin before she was finally scrapped in 1931.
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