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Three ships of the Soviet Navy and Russian Navy have been named for the city of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea: . Novorossiysk – a Conte di Cavour-class battleship of the Italian Navy previously named Giulio Cesare, taken by the Soviet Union as reparations following the end of the Second World War.
Two ships of the Soviet Navy have been named after the city of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea: Novorossiysk - a Conte di Cavour-class battleship of the Italian Navy previously named Giulio Cesare, taken by the Soviet Union as reparations following the end of the Second World War. Soviet aircraft carrier Novorossiysk - a Kiev-class aircraft carrier
Historically, the Borodino-class battleships established two records; under Russian Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky riding in his flagship, Knyaz Suvorov, he led the Russian battleship fleet on the longest coal powered journey ever conducted by a steel battleship fleet during wartime, a voyage of over 18,000 miles (29,000 km) one way.
The ship was stricken from the naval register on 15 December and turned over to the Soviets on 6 February 1949 under the temporary name of Z11 in Vlorë, Albania. [30] She was renamed Novorossiysk, after the Soviet city of that name on the Black Sea. The Soviets used her as a training ship, and gave her eight refits.
Jane's Fighting Ships has noted in one of its 1999-2000 editions that some ships have little capability, but remain flying an ensign so that crews are entitled to be paid. [ 1 ] Jane's Fighting Ships online edition, dated 8 March 2010, added "There are large numbers of most classes 'in reserve', and flying an ensign so that skeleton crews may ...
The ships were completed during World War I. In December 1915, and January 1916, when the Serbian army was driven by the German foces under General von Mackensen toward the Albanian coast, 138,000 Serbian infantry and 11,000 refugees were ferried across the Adriatic and landed in Italy in 87 trips by the Conte di Cavour and other shps of the ...
Soviet battleship Novorossiysk; O. Soviet battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya; P. Soviet battleship Parizhskaya Kommuna; R. Soviet battleship Respublika; HMS Royal ...
SSV-33 (Pacific Fleet communications ship, based upon the Kirov-class battlecruiser hull) Lun -class ekranoplan (Commissioned as a ship and used as one). VMF Kommuna is a salvage vessel, and having been launched in 1915, one of the oldest naval vessels still in service in a major navy of the world.