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Wednesday 28 September 2016

German shipyard Blohm und Voss designed new Russian battleships according to the Dutch newspaper Soerabaijasch handelsblad dated 25 August 1908

Gangut-class

An item reported that the Russian admiralty accepted the designs made by the German shipyard Blohm und Voss, Hamburg for the building of battleships at Russian shipyards using Russian materials.(1)

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