Poltava (renamed Frunze in 1926) was the second of the Gangut-class battleships of the Imperial Russian Navy built before World War I. The Ganguts were the first class of Russian dreadnoughts. She was named after the Russian victory over Charles XII of Sweden in the Battle of Poltava in 1709. She was completed during theContinue reading “Russian battleship Poltava (1911)”
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Russian cruiser Gromoboi
Gromoboi (Russian: Громобой, meaning: “Thunderer”) was an armoured cruiser built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the late 1890s. She was designed as a long-range commerce raider and served as such during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05. When the war broke out, she was based in Vladivostok and made several sorties in search of JapaneseContinue reading “Russian cruiser Gromoboi”
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