At least four ships of the Imperial Russian and Soviet Navies have been named Gangut after the 1714 Battle of Gangut.
- Russian ship of the line Gangut (1719) - 90-gun ship of the line ordered scrapped in 1736.
- Russian ship of the line Gangut (1825) - 84-gun ship of the line that participated in the Battle of Navarino. Rebuilt as a screw frigate in the 1850s and finally stricken in 1871.
- Russian coast defense ship Gangut (1888) - Coast-defense ship that ran aground and was lost in 1897.
- Russian battleship Gangut (1911) - Lead ship of the Gangut-class dreadnoughts that participated in World War I and World War II before being scrapped in 1956. Renamed Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya by the Soviets.
| This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists. |
Famous quotes containing the word russian:
“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No—we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)