SK 23 Oct 1886 1889 Sep. 1889 Dec. 1889 Mar. 1890 1909 31 Jul 1909 auctioned for scrapping 1911 broken up. Pervîn ("Pleiades") Schiffs & Maschinenbau...

title of "Hero City" in 1945. (The others were Leningrad, Stalingrad, and Sevastopol). The city suffered severe damage and sustained many casualties over the...

second torpedo boat patrolling the area. "SMS" stands for "Seiner Majestät Schiff", or "His Majesty's Ship" in German. At the time she was laid down, the...

October 29 – Soviet battleship Novorossiysk explodes at moorings in Sevastopol Bay, killing 608 (the Soviet Union's worst naval disaster to date). November...