The 12-inch 40-caliber naval gun was the standard main weapon of the pre-dreadnought battleships of the Imperial Russian Navy. Sixty-eight guns of the first production run were built in 1895–1906 by t
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Russian battleship Potemkin
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The Russian battleship Potemkin 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
Russian 12-inch 40-caliber naval gun
…battleships increased firing rate to 90 seconds from shot to shot. The range of all these guns was limited by their modest vertical firing angle of 15°. Potemkin, designed to fight the Turkish defenses in The Straits, had its firing angle increased to 35° but required four minutes from shot to shot. The two…
Panteleimon at sea, 1906
Panteleimon at anchor, circa 1906–1910
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