Russian battleship Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya information
Imperatritsa Mariya-class dreadnought
A Russian stamp honoring Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya
History
Russian Empire
Name
Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya (Императрица Екатерина Великая (Empress Catherine the Great))
Namesake
Catherine the Great
Operator
Imperial Russian Navy
Builder
ONZiV Shipyard, Nikolayev
Laid down
30 October 1911[Note 1]
Launched
6 June 1914
Commissioned
18 October 1915
Renamed
Svobodnaya Rossiia (Свободная Россия (Free Russia)), 29 April 1917
Russian SFSR
Name
Svobodnaya Rossiia
Operator
Red Fleet
Acquired
November 1917
Fate
Scuttled, 18 June 1918
General characteristics
Class and type
Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleship
Displacement
24,644 long tons (25,039 t)
Length
556 ft (169.5 m) (waterline)
Beam
92 ft (28 m)
Draft
28 ft 7 in (8.7 m)
Installed power
20 Yarrow boilers
27,000 shp (20,000 kW)
Propulsion
4 shafts; 4 steam turbines
Speed
21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Range
1,680 nautical miles (3,110 km; 1,930 mi) at 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Complement
1,154
Armament
4 × triple 12 in (305 mm) guns
18 × single 130 mm (5.1 in) guns
3 × single 75 mm (3 in) AA guns
4 × single 17.7 in (450 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor
Waterline belt: 4.9–10.3 in (125–262 mm)
Deck: 1–2 in (25–50 mm)
Turrets: 9.8 in (250 mm)
Barbettes: 9.8 in (250 mm)
Conning tower: 11.8 in (300 mm)
Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya (Russian: Императрица Екатерина Великая (Empress Catherine the Great)) was the second of three Imperatritsa Mariya-class dreadnoughts built for the Imperial Russian Navy during World War I. Completed in 1915, she was assigned to the Black Sea Fleet. She engaged the ex-German battlecruiser Yavûz Sultân Selîm once, but only inflicted splinter damage while taking no damage herself. The ship briefly encountered an Ottoman light cruiser, but mostly covered the actions of smaller ships during the war without firing her guns. These included minelaying operations off the Bosporus and anti-shipping sweeps of the coast of Anatolia. Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya was renamed Svobodnaya Rossiya (Russian: Свободная Россия, Free Russia) after the February Revolution of 1917.
She was evacuated from Sevastopol as German troops approached the city in May 1918, but was scuttled in Novorossiysk harbor the following month when the Germans demanded that the Soviets hand her over according to the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Svobodnaya Rossiya was only partially salvaged after the war.
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