Russian battleship Poltava (1911)

Admiralty Shipyard, St. Petersburg

• Construction: 23,000 ts
• Maximum: 25.850 ts

Waterline: 179.8 m over all: 182.9 m

26.9 m

8.3 m

1,125 man

• 4 sentence Parsons steam turbines
• 25 coal-fired Yarrow boilers with oil - supplementary firing
• 4 three -bladed screws
• 42,000 PSW

Max. 23.4 kn

4,000 sm at 16 kn

12 × 305-mm-L/52-SK 16 × 120-mm-L/50-SK 6 × 75-mm-L/30 ,5- Flak 6 × underwater torpedo tubes Ø 457 mm

The Poltava was the last of four dreadnought battleships of the Russian Gangut class. Sister ships were next to the Gangut the Petropavlovsk and Sevastopol. The four were the first Russian dreadnoughts. Since Russian shipyards had little experience with the construction of modern capital ships, the Duma approved but funds to build only on Russian shipyards have been requested Italian, German ( Blohm & Voss ) and Scottish designs. This ultimately led to a rather unconventional design that was inspired by the Italian Dante Alighieri. The ships had a Eisbrecherbug and two of the four towers were amidships in front of and behind the second chimney. The construction of the ships took a long time, since Russia had difficulty to produce the required steel in sufficient quantities.

The Poltava was laid in 1909 in St. Petersburg to Kiel, left in July 1911 from the stack and completed in December 1914. During World War II she served in the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Navy. A major fire damaged in 1922 the ship so that it is not repaired, but was only cannibalized. 1925, it was renamed Mikhail Frunze, but only used as the Hulk until it was scrapped in the 1950s.

Two of the four drilling towers were used from 1954 to rebuild the coastal battery Maxim Gorki I.