Marat
1941
(Neptun 1603)
- Class: Gangut - 4 battleships of 1909
- Displacement: 26,170 tons
- Dimensions: 604'6" (oa) x 88'3" x 29'6"
- Machinery: Parson steam turbines, 4 shafts, S.H.P. 52,000 = 24 knots
- Armor: Main belt 8.75 in. (amidships), 5-2 in. (ends), deck 3 in., turrets 12-10 in.,
battery 6 in., conning tower 10 in.
- Armament: 12-12in (4x3), 16-4.7in (16x1), 6-3in (6x1) AA guns; 4-18in TT
- Complement: 1,125
- Builder: Baltic Shipyard, St. Petersburg
- Laid Down: 16 Jun 1909
- Launched: 22 Sep 1911
- Completed: 5 Jan 1915
- Notes: Built as Petropavlovsk. Service in Baltic Fleet during World War I, guarding the mouth of the Gulf of Finland. Joined the general mutiny of the Baltic Fleet during the revolution of 1917, being the only dreadnought available to the Bolsheviks for some years. Later her crew joined the Kronstadt Rebellion of 1921. After the rebellion was crushed, she was renamed Marat.
Reconstructed from 1928-31, she represented the Soviet Union at the Coronation Naval Review at Spithead in 1937.
Stationed at Kronstadt when the Germans invaded in 1941, she provided fire support to Soviet troops when the fighting neared Leningrad. Attacked by German Stukas with 1000kg bombs on 23 Sep 1941, her forward magazine exploded, her bow was blown off, and she sank in shallow water.
The stern portion was refloated several months later and used as a stationary artillery battery. She resumed her original name 31 May 1943. Plans to reconstruct her postwar were cancelled in 1948. Renamed Volkhov in 1950, she served as a stationary training ship until broken up 1953.
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