The 120 mm 50 caliber Pattern 1905 was a Russian naval gun developed by Vickers for export in the years before World War I that armed a variety of warships of the Imperial Russian Navy. Guns salvaged from scrapped ships found a second life as coastal artillery, railway artillery and aboard river monitors during the Russian Civil War. It was estimated that there were 110 guns in the Soviet Navy's inventory in 1941. Of these, 39 were in the Baltic Fleet, 20 in the Black sea Fleet, 24 in the Amur Flotilla, 11 in the Pacific Fleet and 6 in the Pinsk flotilla in World War II.
An open twin-mount Pattern 1905 in Finnish service.
The Armored Cruiser Rurik in 1917.
A view of the casemated Pattern 1905 guns amidships aboard the battleship Gangut.
A view of the open twin-mount Pattern 1905 guns aboard the Finnish icebreaker Voima.
Sampo (1898 icebreaker)
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Sampo was a Finnish state-owned steam-powered icebreaker. Built in 1898 by Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom and named after a magical artifact from the Finnish mythology, she was the second state-owned icebreaker of Finland and the first European icebreaker equipped with a bow propeller. When Sampo was decommissioned and broken up in 1960, she was also the second last steam-powered icebreaker in the Finnish icebreaker fleet.
Sampo undergoing sea trials on 23 October 1898.
Sampo assisting SS Castor during the Finnish Civil War in February 1918.
Sampo grounded and camouflaged with tree branches.
Neptun's salvage ship Assistans next to the partially submerged Sampo.