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Ships · Soviet Union · 1911-1953

Soviet battleship Marat

battleship

A First World War-era dreadnought originally named Petropavlovsk, Marat spent the war moored at Kronstadt shelling German positions besieging Leningrad. Stuka pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel put a 1,000kg bomb into her forward magazine in September 1941, blowing off her bow and killing over 300 crew, yet her surviving guns kept firing in support of the city's defenders for years afterward.

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classGangut-class dreadnought
armament12x 305mm guns (reduced after 1941)
displacement26,700 tons (full load)
crew~1,150

Eastern Front

Imperial Russian battleship Petropavlovsk in Helsingfors.
Imperial Russian battleship Petropavlovsk in Helsingfors.Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · source
Revolutionary Russian sailors of Russian Imperial Navy battleship Petropavlovsk in Helsinki during summer 1917. Flag carries text "Death to the bourgeois".
Revolutionary Russian sailors of Russian Imperial Navy battleship Petropavlovsk in Helsinki during summer 1917. Flag carries text "Death to the bourgeois".Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · source
Right elevation and deck plan diagrams of Russian Gangut class battleship. Numbers on top diagram show armour thickness (shaded areas) in inches. Numbers on bottom diagram show size of guns in inches.
Right elevation and deck plan diagrams of Russian Gangut class battleship. Numbers on top diagram show armour thickness (shaded areas) in inches. Numbers on bottom diagram show size of guns in inches.artist not identified · Public domain · source

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