Raid on Kronstadt
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The raid on Kronstadt was an attack by Royal Navy coastal motor boats and Royal Air Force aircraft on the Bolshevik Baltic Fleet at its home base on 18 August 1919. After the Allied intervention in th
Two CMBs, a two-torpedo version (foreground) and single-torpedo version (rear)
An aircraft returning to Vindictive, ditched in the sea
Plans of a 55ft CMB
Wreckage of the Pamiat Azova
Russian cruiser Pamiat Azova
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Pamiat Azova was a unique armoured cruiser built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the late 1880s. She was decommissioned from front line service in 1909, converted into a depot ship and sunk by Britis
Raid on Kronstadt
…by Agar in CMB-4. One CMB broke down en route to the harbour but the remaining six penetrated the defences and scored hits on the submarine depot ship Pamiat Azova, which sank, and the battleship Andrei Pervozvanny, which was damaged. A simultaneous air raid by the Royal Air Force damaged a destroyer. Three of the…
1892 lithograph
Pamiat Azova Egg