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Pages in category "World War II battleships of the Soviet Union" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Historically, the Borodino-class battleships established two records; under Russian Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky riding in his flagship, Knyaz Suvorov, he led the Russian battleship fleet on the longest coal powered journey ever conducted by a steel battleship fleet during wartime, a voyage of over 18,000 miles (29,000 km) one way.
The Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleships (Project 23, Russian: Советский Союз, ' Soviet Union '), also known as "Stalin's Republics", were a class of battleships begun by the Soviet Union in the late 1930s but never brought into service.
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Inspection of the Black Sea Fleet in 1849, 1886. This is a list of Russian ships of the line from the period 1668–1860: The format is: Name, number of guns (rank/real amount), launch year (A = built in Arkhangelsk), fate (service = combat service, BU = broken up)
The List of ships of World War II contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner ...
World War II submarines of the Soviet Union (5 C, 56 P) Pages in category "World War II naval ships of the Soviet Union" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
Very little is known of the ship's actions during the battle as there was only a single survivor from the ship and visibility was poor for most of the battle, but Captain W. C. Pakenham, the Royal Navy's official military observer aboard the Japanese battleship Asahi under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, noted that she was hit badly around 14:30 ...
In the most successful Japanese battleship action of the war, [15] this action killed 41 defenders and put the airfield out of action for about 12 hours. During the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal , battleships Hiei and Kirishima attempted a second bombardment of Henderson Field but were driven off by a force of U.S. cruisers and destroyers.