Russian cruiser Pallada (1906)

Pallada at anchor
History
Russian Empire
Name	Pallada
Namesake	Pallas Athena
Builder	Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Laid down	August 1905[Note 1]
Launched	10 November 1906
Completed	21 February 1911
Fate	Sunk by U-26, 11 October 1914
General characteristics
Class and type	Bayan-class armored cruiser
Displacement	7,750 long tons (7,874 t) standard
Length	449.6 ft (137.0 m)
Beam	57 ft 6 in (17.5 m)
Draught	22 ft (6.7 m)
Installed power	16,500 ihp (12,300 kW) 26 Belleville boilers
Propulsion	2 shafts 2 VTE steam engines
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Complement	568 (597 at sinking)
Armament	2 × 1 - 203 mm (8 in) guns 8 × 1 - 152 mm (6 in) guns 20 × 1 - 75 mm (3.0 in) guns 4 × 1 - 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 2 × 15 in (381 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour	Krupp armor Waterline belt: 90–175 mm (3.5–6.9 in) Deck: 50 mm (2.0 in) Gun turrets: 132 mm (5.2 in) Casemates: 60 mm (2.4 in) Conning tower: 136 mm (5.4 in)

Pallada (Russian: Паллада) was the last of the four Bayan-class armored cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was assigned to the Baltic Fleet during World War I where she captured codebooks from the German cruiser Magdeburg that had run aground during the first month of the war. The ship was torpedoed by a German submarine in October 1914 and exploded; none of the crew survived. Pallada was the first warship lost by the Russians during the war.
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