&sq=&lang=&file=File:Sevastopol_battleship.jpg) Sevastopol during World War I
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| History | |
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 Russian Empire | |
| Name | Sevastopol |
| Namesake | Siege of Sevastopol |
| Builder | Baltic Works, Saint Petersburg |
| Laid down | 16 June 1909[Note 1] |
| Launched | 10 July 1911 |
| In service | 30 November 1914 |
 Soviet Union | |
| Name | Parizhskaya Kommuna |
| Namesake | Paris Commune |
| Acquired | November 1917 |
| Recommissioned | 17 September 1925 |
| Decommissioned | November 1918 |
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| Stricken | 17 February 1956 |
| Nickname(s) | Parizhanka (Parisienne) |
| Honours and awards | Order of the Red Banner 8 July 1945 |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1957 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Gangut-class battleship |
| Displacement | 24,800 t (24,400 long tons; 27,300 short tons) |
| Length | 181.2 m (594 ft 6 in) |
| Beam | 26.9 m (88 ft 3 in) |
| Draft | 8.99 m (29 ft 6 in) |
| Installed power | 52,000 shp (38,776 kW) (on trials) |
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| Speed | 24.1 knots (44.6 km/h; 27.7 mph) (on trials) |
| Range | 3,200 nmi (5,900 km; 3,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 1,149 |
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Sevastopol (Russian: Севастополь) was the first ship completed of the Gangut-class battleships of the Imperial Russian Navy, built before World War I. The Ganguts were the first class of Russian dreadnoughts. She was named after the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. She was completed during the winter of 1914–1915, but was not ready for combat until mid-1915. Her role was to defend the mouth of the Gulf of Finland against the Germans, who never tried to enter, so she spent her time training and providing cover for minelaying operations. Her crew joined the general mutiny of the Baltic Fleet after the February Revolution and joined the Bolsheviks later that year. She was laid up in 1918 for lack of manpower, but her crew joined the Kronstadt rebellion of 1921. She was renamed Parizhskaya Kommuna after the rebellion was crushed to commemorate the Paris Commune and to erase the ship's betrayal of the Communist Party.
She was recommissioned in 1925, and refitted in 1928 in preparation for her transfer to the Black Sea the following year. Parizhskaya Kommuna and the cruiser Profintern ran into a severe storm in the Bay of Biscay that severely damaged Parizhskaya Kommuna's false bow. They had to put into Brest for repairs, but reached Sevastopol in January 1930. Parizhskaya Kommuna was comprehensively reconstructed in two stages during the 1930s that replaced her boilers, upgraded her guns, augmented her anti-aircraft armament, modernized her fire-control systems and gave her anti-torpedo bulges. During World War II she provided gunfire support during the Siege of Sevastopol and related operations until she was withdrawn from combat in April 1942 when the risk from German aerial attack became too great. She was retained on active duty after the war until she became a training ship in 1954. She was broken up in 1956–1957.
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