Russian battleship Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya
- Russian battleship Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya
The "Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya" ("Императрица Екатерина Великая") was an "Imperatritsa Mariya"-class Dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy.
"Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya" was launched in 1914, originally named "Ekaterina II", and renamed "Svobodnaya Rossiya" ("Свободная Россия", "Free Russia") in 1917. She twice engaged the German battlecruiser SMS "Goeben" while the latter was in Turkish service as "Yavuz Sultan Selim". The ship was scuttled on 18 June 1918 in Novorossiysk to prevent it from falling into German hands. She was scrapped in the 1930s, her turrets and guns being salvaged and used in coastal defense batteries near Sevastopol, along with those of her sister-ship "Imperatritza Mariya". The guns saw action against Nazi forces during the Great Patriotic War (World War II).
References
* [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmore/russia/battleships/imperatritsamaria/ekaterinaii.html page in English]
* [http://flot.sevastopol.info/eng/ship/dreadnoughts/imp_ekaterina.htm page in English from Black Sea Fleet]
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