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130: 42: 21: 555:. The ship became the center of a “people marine military tribunal”, where many officers of the former Imperial Russian Navy were imprisoned, tortured and executed. In September 1918, while docked as 1101: 462: 1584: 1589: 1094: 1196: 1230: 1127: 865: 1087: 1036: 57: 1070: 1216: 851: 808: 789: 770: 748: 729: 696: 656: 1429: 1141: 938: 1278: 1223: 945: 858: 1569: 1169: 1148: 1015: 1001: 548: 1374: 1292: 959: 837: 599: 380: 1237: 907: 879: 872: 352: 1579: 1162: 439: 1450: 1388: 1381: 1134: 1119: 1471: 1176: 1155: 646: 1491: 1251: 893: 1464: 1505: 1457: 1395: 1320: 987: 497: 1443: 1422: 1532: 1367: 1359: 1299: 1244: 1008: 966: 886: 552: 359: 1436: 1512: 1327: 1313: 1306: 1285: 994: 980: 973: 952: 844: 533: 529: 458: 423: 47: 1079: 1402: 1188: 931: 1574: 1498: 1339: 1258: 900: 311: 1111: 628: 516:
and temporarily as an imperial yacht in 1908. In 1911, after repairs, she was transferred to the
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after the battle. She returned to the Baltic Fleet after the war, serving as an
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by France, and was subsequently sold to a French firm for scrap in 1934.
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The Tsar's last armada: the epic journey to the Battle of Tsushima
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New York: Basic Books. p. 64. 488:(1904–1905), she was assigned to the 269:365 ft 8 in (111.5 m) 126: 7: 1071:List of cruisers of the Russian Navy 743:. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. 724:. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. 567:forces. In 1920 she was interned at 543:revolted in early 1918, joining the 624:Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping 598:All dates used in this article are 1590:Ships built at the Baltic Shipyard 1110:Russian naval ship classes of the 280:43 ft 6 in (13.3 m) 14: 508:was the only major ship to reach 288:17 ft 3 in (5.3 m) 128: 40: 19: 532:on 5 November 1914, and at the 645:Pleshakov, Konstantin (2002). 1: 716:Robert Gardiner, ed. (1979). 627:. Chichester House. pp.  547:against the authority of the 496:under the command of Admiral 484:in 1903. At the start of the 369:General characteristics 1915 1120:Pre-dreadnought battleships 803:. London: Arms and Armour. 549:Ukrainian People's Republic 333:(35 km/h; 22 mph) 1606: 799:Watts, Anthony J. (1990). 621:Mason, Herbert B. (1908). 480:was commissioned into the 386:4 × 76.2 mm (3 in) AA guns 1543: 1068: 1054: 801:The Imperial Russian Navy 438:, as a yacht for Viceroy 415: 368: 237: 152: 121: 30: 18: 1360:Armed merchant cruisers 765:. The Scarecrow Press. 691:. The Scarecrow Press. 238:General characteristics 1129:Imperator Aleksandr II 780:Layman, R. D. 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Index


Imperial Russian Navy
Pamiat Merkuria
Russian
Diamond
Baltic Works
Saint Petersburg
Seaplane tender
Scrapped
cruiser
long tons
o/a
ihp
vertical triple expansion steam engines
water-tube boilers
knots
75 mm (3 in)
47 mm (2 in)
120 mm (4.7 in)
flying boats
Russian
cruiser
Imperial Russian Navy
Baltic Shipyard
Saint Petersburg
Russia
Yevgeni Alekseyev
Baltic Shipyard
Nicholai II
Konstantin

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