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PETR VELIKI

Post by shipstamps » Sun Oct 05, 2008 5:03 pm


I have found her under the name PIOTR VELIKIY, PETR VELIKY, PETR VELIKI and PIETR WIELIKIJ so take your pick, the name is translated PETER THE GREAT.
All the Worlds Fighting Ships 1860-1905 has her name as PETR VELEKI, so I will use that name.

She was the first modern Russian turret-battleship., built on the Galerny Island Navy yard at St Petersburg for the Imperial Russian Navy.
01 June 1869 laid down.
27 (15 other source) August 1972 launched under the name PETR VELEKI.
Displacement 9.665 tons standard, 10.105 tons maximum. Dim. 101.6 x 19.3 x 7.5m. (draught).
Powered by a compound steam engine 8.700 hp., twin screws, speed 14.5 knots.
Bunker capacity 1.200 tons coal.
Armament: 4 – 12 inch, 4 – 4pdrs., 6 – 47mm, 4 – 37mm guns. Two 15 inch submerged torpedo tubes.
Crew 440.
14 October 1876 commissioned.

Was built after plans made by Vice Admiral Popoff.
1881 Had an extensive refit in Glasgow, and her machinery were replaced by Messrs Elder, the old engines never worked satisfactory.
Between 1905 and 1906 reconstructed and converted in a gunnery school ship, her armament was altered in 4 – 8 inch, 10 – 6 inch, 12 -12pdrs, 4 – 6pdrs and 4 – 3pdrs. guns.
She became also a two-funnel ship.
1917 Renamed in RESPUBLIKANETS.
1920 In use as a mine depot ship and renamed BARRIKADA.
1942 Grounded and used as a block-ship near Kronstad.
1959 Scrapped.

(One source has her also under the name KREISER but that is the Russian word for cruiser.)

Sources: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmore/r ... eliky.html. Jane’s Fighting Ships 1914. Log Book. Navicula.

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