Russian battleship Imperatritsa Mariya

A grey ship with two masts, two funnels and draped with nets above the waterline
Imperatritsa Mariya at anchor in Sevastopol
History
Imperial Russian Navy
NameImperatritsa Mariya
NamesakeMaria Feodorovna
OperatorImperial Russian Navy
BuilderRussud Shipyard, Nikolayev
Laid down30 October 1911[Note 1]
Launched19 October 1913
In service10 June 1915
Out of serviceSunk by internal explosion, 20 October 1916
Stricken21 November 1925
FateScrapped beginning 1926
General characteristics
Class and typeImperatritsa Mariya-class battleship
Displacement23,413 long tons (23,789 t)
Length168 m (551 ft 2 in)
Beam27.43 m (90 ft 0 in)
Draft8.36 m (27 ft 5 in)
Installed power
Propulsion
Speed21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Range1,640 nmi (3,040 km; 1,890 mi) at 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Complement1,213
Armament
Armor

Imperatritsa Mariya (Russian: Императрица Мария: Empress Maria) was the lead ship of her class of three dreadnoughts built for the Imperial Russian Navy during World War I. She served with the Black Sea Fleet during the war and covered older pre-dreadnought battleships as they bombarded Ottoman facilities in 1915. The ship engaged the Ottoman light cruiser Midilli,(formerly the German SMS Breslau) several times without inflicting anything more serious than splinter damage. Imperatritsa Mariya was sunk at anchor in Sevastopol by a magazine explosion in late 1916, killing 228 crewmen. She was subsequently raised, but her condition was very poor. She was finally scrapped in 1926, after the end of the Russian Civil War.
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