Russian battleship Potemkin

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The Russian battleship Potemkin was a pre-dreadnought warship of the Imperial Russian Navy, best known for the 1905 mutiny aboard her that became a symbol of revolutionary unrest and was later immortalized in Sergei Eisenstein’s film "Battleship Potemkin."

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instanceOf mutinous ship
pre-dreadnought battleship
warship
armament 305 mm main guns
secondary battery of smaller guns
builder Mykolaiv Admiralty shipyard NERFINISHED
Mykolayiv, Ukraine NERFINISHED
commissioned 1905
conflict Russo-Japanese War era (not deployed to Far East)
World War I
country Russian Empire
crewComplement approximately 700 sailors and officers
culturalDepiction film "Battleship Potemkin" NERFINISHED
decommissioned early 1920s
displacement approximately 12,900 tons
era pre-dreadnought era
fate scrapped
filmReleaseYear 1925
followedBy dreadnought-type battleships in Russian service
historicalPeriod Russian Revolution of 1905 NERFINISHED
homePort Sevastopol NERFINISHED
immortalizedBy Sergei Eisenstein NERFINISHED
laidDown 1898
languageOfOriginalName Russian
laterName Borets za Svobodu NERFINISHED
Panteleimon NERFINISHED
launched 1900
legacy icon of revolutionary cinema
symbol of sailors’ revolt against autocracy
length approximately 113 meters
maximumSpeed about 16 knots
mutinyDate June 1905
namedAfter Grigory Potemkin NERFINISHED
navalFleet Black Sea Fleet NERFINISHED
navalTheater Black Sea NERFINISHED
notableEvent Potemkin mutiny NERFINISHED
operator Imperial Russian Navy NERFINISHED
originalName Knyaz Potemkin Tavricheskiy NERFINISHED
precededBy earlier Russian pre-dreadnought battleships
propulsion coal-fired boilers
triple-expansion steam engines
serviceBranch Black Sea Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy NERFINISHED
shipClass Knyaz Potemkin Tavricheskiy-class battleship NERFINISHED
Potemkin-class battleship NERFINISHED
statusDuringWWI served in the Black Sea
surrenderedTo Romanian authorities NERFINISHED
symbolOf revolutionary unrest in Russia
visitedCountry Romania NERFINISHED
visitedPort Constanța NERFINISHED
Odessa NERFINISHED

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Platon Odyntsov (Sailor from Potemkin mutiny) servedOn Russian battleship Potemkin
subject surface form: Platon Odyntsov