Battleship "Hanko" was one of four dreadnoughts type "Sevastopol", built for the Baltic Fleet 1914 year. In 20-ies of XX century. the ship received a new name - the "October Revolution" - and has undergone a radical modernization. In the late 30-ies of the battleship is quite different from its original appearance. It was found 12 Oil fired boilers, removed not justified turbine cruise travel, significantly enhanced the navigation system, control the ship and artillery fire.
To do this, in the conning tower had another storey, dismantled with the same type of "Poltava", and built the tower-like mast. "October Revolution" took an active part in the Soviet-Finnish and the Great Patriotic War.
Battleship is excluded from the lists of the fleet in 1956 year.
The performance characteristics of the battleship "October Revolution"
| Displacement (full) | 26 692 t |
| Length | 184,9 m |
| Width | 26,9 m |
| Draft | 9,47 m |
| Power plant | 57500 l. from. |
| Speed | 22,5 host |
| armor | board 225 mm, casemates 127 mm, deck of up to 73 mm, deckhouse 250 mm |
| weaponry | 12h305 mm, 16x 120-mm guns, 6h76-mm anti-aircraft guns, 6 quad machine guns "Maxim",4 torpedo tubes, seaplane (in 1941-1942 from the battleship removed 8 120-mm guns, setting further paired 76-mm anti-aircraft installation, 1 quad and 10 Single-37-mm anti-aircraft automatic, 2 quad machine gun "Vickers") |
| Crew | 1277 people |
Photo battleship "October Revolution" ('Gangut')
