Global InformationRussian battleship Dvenadsat Apostolov information
 1893 lithograph of Dvenadsat Apostolov
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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Dvenadsat Apostolov |
| Operators |  Imperial Russian Navy |
| Preceded by | Imperator Aleksandr II class |
| Succeeded by | Navarin |
| Built | 1888–1892 |
| In commission | 1893–1911 |
| Planned | 2 |
| Completed | 1 |
| Cancelled | 1 |
| Scrapped | 1 |
| History | |
 Russian Empire | |
| Name | Dvenadsat Apostolov (Двенадцать апостолов) |
| Namesake | Twelve Apostles |
| Operator | Imperial Russian Navy |
| Ordered | 12 November 1887[Note 1] |
| Builder | Nikolayev Admiralty Shipyard |
| Laid down | 21 August 1889 |
| Launched | 13 September 1890 |
| Completed | December 1892 |
| Decommissioned | 1 April 1911 |
| In service | 17 June 1893 |
| Renamed | Blokshiv No. 8, 4 September 1914 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 28 January 1931 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement | 8,710 long tons (8,850 t) |
| Length | 342 ft (104.2 m) (o/a) |
| Beam | 60 ft (18.3 m) |
| Draft | 27 ft 6 in (8.4 m) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph) |
| Range | 1,900 nmi (3,500 km; 2,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 599 |
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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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