Russian battleship Imperatritsa Mariya
Imperatritsa Mariya at anchor in Sevastopol | |
| History | |
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| Imperial Russian Navy | |
| Name | Imperatritsa Mariya |
| Namesake | Maria Feodorovna |
| Operator | Imperial Russian Navy |
| Builder | Russud Shipyard, Nikolayev |
| Laid down | 30 October 1911 |
| Launched | 19 October 1913 |
| In service | 10 June 1915 |
| Out of service | Sunk by internal explosion, 20 October 1916 |
| Stricken | 21 November 1925 |
| Fate | Scrapped beginning 1926 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleship |
| Displacement | 23,413 long tons (23,789 t) |
| Length | 168 m (551 ft 2 in) |
| Beam | 27.43 m (90 ft 0 in) |
| Draft | 8.36 m (27 ft 5 in) |
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| Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Range | 1,640 nmi (3,040 km; 1,890 mi) at 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Complement | 1,213 |
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Imperatritsa Mariya (Russian: Императрица Мария: Empress Maria) was the lead ship of her class of three dreadnoughts built for the Imperial Russian Navy during World War I. She served with the Black Sea Fleet during the war and covered older pre-dreadnought battleships as they bombarded Ottoman facilities in 1915. The ship engaged the Ottoman light cruiser Midilli,(formerly the German SMS Breslau) several times without inflicting anything more serious than splinter damage. Imperatritsa Mariya was sunk at anchor in Sevastopol by a magazine explosion in late 1916, killing 228 crewmen. She was subsequently raised, but her condition was very poor. She was finally scrapped in 1926, after the end of the Russian Civil War.