Gangut Class Battleship

Gangut Class Battleship

Manufacturer:

Baltic Works and Galerni Works

Role:

Battleship

Year Adopted:

1911

Number in Class:

4 Ships
(Gangut, Poltava, Petropavlovsk, and Sevastopol)

Displacement:

Standard:

Fully Loaded:

25,000 Tons

26,170 Tons

Operational Status:

Russia - Obsolete
Used from 1911 to mid-1950's.

Armament:

4	Triple 12 inch guns in turrets
16	4.7 inch (120mm) guns
8	76.2mm anti-aircraft guns (6 on Sevastopol)
6	45mm anti-aircraft guns
16	12.7mm machine guns
4	18 inch (450mm) submerged torpedo tubes

Sensor Suite:

None

Engine:

2x Parsons turbines; 25 boilers; driving four shafts delivering 42,000 horsepower

Crew:

1,277 Officers and Sailors

Length:

180 meters

(549 feet, 6 inches )

Draught:

9.2 meters

(30.2 feet)

Beam:

26.6 meters

(87.3 feet)

Maximum Speed:

23 knots

Aircraft:

3 (added in 1930's to all but Poltava)

The Gangut Class
Battleship in Pictures

Development,
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Sources Cited

(1) Miller, David, The Illustrated Directory of Warships from 1860 to the Present, Motorbooks International: Osceola, WI, 2001. Print.
(2) Watts, Anthony J., The Imperial Russian Navy, Arms and Armour press: London, 1990. Print.
(3) Breyer, Siegfried, Battleships of the World 1905-1970, Mayflower Books: New York, NY, 1980. Print.