The Russian battleship Potemkin was a pre-dreadnought battleshipbuilt for the Imperial Russian

Navy's Black Sea Fleet and launched 9 October 1900. The crew's rebellion against the officers in
June 1905 (during that year's revolution) is now viewed as a first step towards theRussian
Revolution of 1917. After the mutineers sought asylum inConstana, Romania, and the Russians
recovered the ship, her name was changed toPanteleimon. She accidentally sank a
Russian submarine in 1909 and was badly damaged when she ran aground in 1911. During World
War I, Panteleimon participated in the Battle of Cape Sarych in late 1914 and covered several
bombardments of the Ottoman Bosphorusfortifications in early 1915. The ship was relegated to
secondary roles after the first Russiandreadnought battleship entered service in late
1915. Panteleimon was captured when the Germans took Sevastopol in May 1918 and was
handed over to the Allies after the Armisticein November 1918. She was abandoned when
the White Russians evacuated the Crimea in 1920 and was finally scrapped by the Soviets in
1923. The 1905 mutiny inspired Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 silent propaganda film The Battleship
Potemkin. (Full article...)

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