Russian battleship Potemkin

Panteleimon at sea, 1906
Class overview
Operators	Imperial Russian Navy
Preceded by	Peresvet class
Succeeded by	Retvizan
In commission	1903–1918
Completed	1
Scrapped	1
History
Russian Empire
Name	1904: Kniaz Potemkin Tavricheskiy 1905: Panteleimon 1917: Potemkin-Tavricheskiy 1917: Borets za Svobodu
Namesake	Grigory Potemkin Saint Pantaleon
Builder	Nikolaev Admiralty Shipyard
Laid down	10 October 1898[Note 1]
Launched	9 October 1900
Decommissioned	March 1918
In service	Early 1905
Out of service	19 April 1919
Stricken	21 November 1925
Fate	Scrapped, 1923
General characteristics
Type	Pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement	12,900 long tons (13,107 t) (actual)
Length	378 ft 6 in (115.4 m)
Beam	73 ft (22.3 m)
Draught	27 ft (8.2 m)
Installed power	22 Belleville boilers 10,600 ihp (7,900 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Range	3,200 nautical miles (5,900 km; 3,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	26 officers, 705 enlisted men
Armament	2 × twin 12 in (305 mm) guns 16 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns 14 × single 75 mm (3 in) guns 6 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 5 × 15 in (381 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour	Krupp cemented armour Waterline belt: 9 in (229 mm) Deck: 2–3 in (51–76 mm) Barbettes: 4.2–10 in (107–254 mm) Gun turrets: 10 in (254 mm)

The Russian battleship Potemkin (Russian: Князь Потёмкин Таврический, romanized: Kniaz Potyomkin Tavricheskiy, "Prince Potemkin of Taurida") was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet. She became famous during the Revolution of 1905, when her crew mutinied against their officers. This event later formed the basis for Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 silent film Battleship Potemkin.

After the mutineers sought asylum in Constanța, Romania, and after the Russians recovered the ship, her name was changed to Panteleimon. She accidentally sank a Russian submarine in 1909 and was badly damaged when she ran aground in 1911. During World War I, Panteleimon participated in the Battle of Cape Sarych in late 1914. She covered several bombardments of the Bosphorus fortifications in early 1915, including one where the ship was attacked by the Ottoman battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim – Panteleimon and the other Russian pre-dreadnoughts present drove her off before she could inflict any serious damage. The ship was relegated to secondary roles after Russia's first dreadnought battleship entered service in late 1915. She was by then obsolete and was reduced to reserve in 1918 in Sevastopol.

Panteleimon was captured when the Germans took Sevastopol in May 1918 and was handed over to the Allies after the Armistice in November 1918. Her engines were destroyed by the British in 1919 when they withdrew from Sevastopol to prevent the advancing Bolsheviks from using them against the White Russians. The ship was abandoned when the Whites evacuated the Crimea in 1920 and was finally scrapped by the Soviets in 1923.
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