Gangut class battleship
The Gangut-class were the first "dreadnought" battleships built for the Imperial
Russian Navy. The ships were authorised by the duma (Russian Parliament) in 1908.
Because of lack of experience the Russians asked several foreign yards for design
advice. A convoluted design history involving Italian, German (Blohm & Voss) and
British (John Brown and Company) companies ensued. The ships were ordered in
1909. Four ships were built. Two were named after victorious battles of Peter the
Great in the Great Northern War, two were named after battles in the Crimean War.
Three of the ships replaced similarly named ships of the Petropavlovsk-class lost in
the Russo-Japanese War.

Gangut class Ships
2.1 Gangut
2.2 Petropavlovsk
2.3 Sevastopol <<<<<<<<
2.4 Poltava

Sevastopol
Sevastopol, built by Baltic Yard, St.Petersburg, was laid down 1909, launched in
October 1911, and completed in November 1914. Originally named after the city of
Sevastopol in the Crimea, renamed Parizhskaya Kommuna after the Paris Commune
of 1871, she was transferred to the Black Sea Fleet in 1929, because all of the Black
Sea Dreadnoughts were lost during the Revolution and subsequent Russian Civil
War. The ship fought in World War II, was renamed Sevastopol in 1943, and was
scrapped in 1957.