Back بوتمكين (مدمرة) Arabic Княз Потьомкин Таврический (броненосец) Bulgarian Potěmkin (1900) Czech Knjas Potjomkin Tawritscheski German Θωρηκτό Ποτέμκιν (πλοίο) Greek Potemkin (1905) Spanish Knjaz Potjomkin-Tavritšeski ET نبردناو پوتمکین FA Knjaz Potjomkin-Tavritšeski Finnish Potemkine (cuirassé) French
 Panteleimon at sea, 1906
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| Class overview | |
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| Operators |  Imperial Russian Navy |
| Preceded by | Peresvet class |
| Succeeded by | Retvizan |
| In commission | 1903–1918 |
| Completed | 1 |
| Scrapped | 1 |
| History | |
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| Namesake | |
| Builder | Nikolaev Admiralty Shipyard |
| Laid down | 10 October 1898[Note 1] |
| Launched | 9 October 1900 |
| Decommissioned | March 1918 |
| In service | Early 1905 |
| Out of service | 19 April 1919 |
| Stricken | 21 November 1925 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1923 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement | 12,900 long tons (13,107 t) (actual) |
| Length | 378 ft 6 in (115.4 m) |
| Beam | 73 ft (22.3 m) |
| Draught | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Range | 3,200 nautical miles (5,900 km; 3,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 26 officers, 705 enlisted men |
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The Russian battleship Potemkin (Russian: Князь Потёмкин Таврический, romanized: Kniaz Potyomkin Tavricheskiy, "Prince Potemkin of Taurida") was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet. She became famous during the Revolution of 1905, when her crew mutinied against their officers. This event later formed the basis for Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 silent film Battleship Potemkin.
After the mutineers sought asylum in Constanța, Romania, and after the Russians recovered the ship, her name was changed to Panteleimon. She accidentally sank a Russian submarine in 1909 and was badly damaged when she ran aground in 1911. During World War I, Panteleimon participated in the Battle of Cape Sarych in late 1914. She covered several bombardments of the Bosphorus fortifications in early 1915, including one where the ship was attacked by the Ottoman battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim – Panteleimon and the other Russian pre-dreadnoughts present drove her off before she could inflict any serious damage. The ship was relegated to secondary roles after Russia's first dreadnought battleship entered service in late 1915. She was by then obsolete and was reduced to reserve in 1918 in Sevastopol.
Panteleimon was captured when the Germans took Sevastopol in May 1918 and was handed over to the Allies after the Armistice in November 1918. Her engines were destroyed by the British in 1919 when they withdrew from Sevastopol to prevent the advancing Bolsheviks from using them against the White Russians. The ship was abandoned when the Whites evacuated the Crimea in 1920 and was finally scrapped by the Soviets in 1923.
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