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Wednesday 28 September 2016

Russia ordered building of new battleships in England according to the Dutch newspaper Soerabaijasch handelsblad dated 25 April 1908

Gangut-class

An item dated London, England 23rd April reported that Russia ordered the building by a shipyard along the Clyde of 5 battleships larger as the HMS Dreadnought.(1)

Note
1. The 24.900 tons Gangut-class battleships built at Russian shipyards between 1909-1914, consisting of the Gangut, Petropavlovsk, Sevastopol and Poltava. The international design contest was win by the German ship Blohm un Voss, Hamburg, Germany.