Russian battleship Dvenadsat Apostolov

1893 lithograph of Dvenadsat Apostolov
Class overview
Name	Dvenadsat Apostolov
Operators	Imperial Russian Navy
Preceded by	Imperator Aleksandr II class
Succeeded by	Navarin
Built	1888–1892
In commission	1893–1911
Planned	2
Completed	1
Cancelled	1
Scrapped	1
History
Russian Empire
Name	Dvenadsat Apostolov (Двенадцать апостолов)
Namesake	Twelve Apostles
Operator	Imperial Russian Navy
Ordered	12 November 1887[Note 1]
Builder	Nikolayev Admiralty Shipyard
Laid down	21 August 1889
Launched	13 September 1890
Completed	December 1892
Decommissioned	1 April 1911
In service	17 June 1893
Renamed	Blokshiv No. 8, 4 September 1914
Fate	Sold for scrap, 28 January 1931
General characteristics
Type	Pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement	8,710 long tons (8,850 t)
Length	342 ft (104.2 m) (o/a)
Beam	60 ft (18.3 m)
Draft	27 ft 6 in (8.4 m)
Installed power	8 cylindrical boilers 8,500 ihp (6,338 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph)
Range	1,900 nmi (3,500 km; 2,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	599
Armament	2 × twin 12 in (305 mm) guns 4 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns 12 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 4 × five-barrel 37 mm (1.5 in) revolving guns 10 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) guns 6 × 15 in (381 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor	Compound armor Belt: 12–14 in (305–356 mm) Deck: 2–3 in (51–76 mm) Barbette: 10–12 in (254–305 mm) Barbette hood: 2.5 in (64 mm) Conning tower: 8 in (203 mm) Bulkheads: 9–12 in (229–305 mm)

Dvenadsat Apostolov (Russian: Двенадцать апостолов—"Twelve Apostles") was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy, the sole ship of her class. She entered service in 1893 with the Black Sea Fleet, but was not fully ready until 1894. The ship participated in the failed attempt to recapture the mutinous battleship Potemkin in 1905. Decommissioned and disarmed in 1911, Dvenadsat Apostolov became an immobile submarine depot ship the following year. The ship was captured by the Germans in 1918 in Sevastopol and was handed over to the Allies in December. Lying immobile in Sevastopol, she was captured by both sides in the Russian Civil War before she was abandoned when the White Russians evacuated the Crimea in 1920. Dvenadsat Apostolov was used as a stand-in for the title ship during the 1925 filming of The Battleship Potemkin before she was finally scrapped in 1931.
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