Battleship Empress Maria Russian Navy Fleet Ship Photo Album + Book

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Battleship Empress Maria Russian Navy Fleet Ship Photo Album + Book
M., Treti Rim Publ., 2017 - 304 + 95 p., book - hardcover, photoalbum - paperback 220 x 290 mm. Text in Russian
High-quality illustrated is devoted to a famous Russian Imperial Navy WWI battleship Empress Maria. There is also a 95 pages paperback photo album on the ship. Appr. half of the album - linear plans.
Empress Mariya was one of three Empress Mariya-class dreadnoughts built for the Imperial Russian Navy, lead ship of her class. Construction began before World War Iand she served with the Black Sea Fleet during the war. She covered older pre-dreadnought battleships as they bombarded Ottoman facilities in 1915 and engaged the Ottoman light cruiser Midilli (formerly the German SMS Breslau) several times without inflicting anything more serious than splinter damage. Empress Mariya was sunk at anchor in Sevastopol by a magazine explosion in late 1916, killing 228 crewmen. She was subsequently raised, but her condition was very poor. She was finally scrapped in 1926.
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