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Sovetskaja Ukraina

Schlachtschiff  


Sovetskaja Ukraina



Contruction Data

Laid down:     Nikolaev, 28.11.1938
Launched:     31.08.1932
Commissioned:     
Fate:     destroyed March 1944
Costs:     

Technical Data

Size:     65150 t
Length:     259 m
Beam:     36,0 m
Draft:     9,98 m
Armament:     9 x 40,6 cm; 12 x 15,2 cm; 24 x 10 cm; 48 x 3,7 cm;
  24 x 1,27 cm
Performance:     210000 shp, 29 kn

History

The Sovetskaja Ukraina was laid down in 1938 in Nikolaev at the Black Sea. When German troops captured Nikolaev on 18.08.1941, the ship was completed up to the main deck. It was only slightly damaged by the retreating Russian troops. As all of the ships plans were missing, it was not planned to continue the construction of the ship, instead some of the armor and secondary artillery was used for the fortification of Sevastopol. In 1943 the construction was continued with a low priority and when the Germans were forced out of Nikilaev in March of 1944, they destroyed the incomplete ship by explosives.

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  Thanks to:  D. Zhukov  S. Myagkov