:Russian battleship Imperator Pavel I

Imperator Pavel I was {{convert|454|ft|m|1}} long at the waterline and {{convert|460|ft|m|1}} long overall. She had a beam of {{convert |80|ft|m|1}} and a draft of {{convert |27|ft|m|1}}. The ship displaced {{convert |18580|LT|t|lk=on}} at deep load. The battleship had a double bottom and a metacentric height of {{convert|4|ft|m|1}}. The ship's crew consisted of 31 officers and 924 crewmen.McLaughlin, pp. 180–181, 185

Imperator Pavel I was equipped with two 4-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engines with a total designed output of {{convert |17600|ihp|lk=on}}. Twenty-five Belleville boilers provided steam to the engines. During her sea trials on 1 November 1910, they produced {{convert|18326|ihp|abbr=on}} and a top speed of {{convert|18.5|knots}}. She carried a normal load of {{convert|800|LT|t}} of coal that provided a range of {{convert|1300|nmi|lk=in}} at a speed of {{convert|12|kn}} and a maximum load of {{convert|1500|LT|t}} that gave {{convert|2400|nmi}} at the same speed.McLaughlin, pp. 181, 187

The main armament of the Andrei Pervozvanny class consisted of two pairs of Russian 12-inch 40-caliber naval gun guns mounted in twin-gun turrets fore and aft of the superstructure. Eight of the fourteen 203 mm 50 caliber Pattern 1905 guns were mounted in four twin-gun turret at the corners of the superstructure while six were mounted in casemates in the superstructure. For defense against torpedo boats, the ships carried twelve 120mm 45 caliber Pattern 1892 guns mounted in casemates above the 8-inch guns in the superstructure. Two underwater {{convert|450|mm|adj=on|sp=us|1}} torpedo tubes were mounted, one on each broadside, and they were provided with six spare torpedoes.McLaughlin, p. 186

Based on the Russian experience at the Battle of Tsushima, the sides of the ship's hull were completely protected by Krupp cemented armor. The main waterline belt had a maximum thickness of {{convert|8.5|in|0}} and the upper belt was {{convert|5|in|0}} at its thickest. The sides of the main gun turrets were {{convert|8|in|0}} thick and the armor of the casemates ranged from {{convert|3.1|to|5|in|0}} in thickness. The greatest thickness of deck armor was {{convert|1.5|in|0}}.McLaughlin, p. 181

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Imperator Pavel I was built by the Baltic Works in Saint Petersburg. Construction began on 27 October 1904All dates used in this article are New Style and was slowed by labor trouble in the shipyard from the 1905 Revolution. She was launched on 7 September 1907 and began her sea trials in October 1910. The ship entered service on 10 March 1911 before her trials were completed in October 1911.McLaughlin, p. 180 Imperator Pavel I joined the Baltic Fleet on completion and she made a port visit to Copenhagen in September 1912. The following September she visited Portland, Cherbourg, and Stavanger. At the beginning of World War I she covered Russian minelaying operations at the entrance of the Gulf of Finland. She did little else for the rest of the war as the Russian naval strategy in the Baltic was defensive; the four {{sclass|Gangut|battleship|0}} dreadnoughts and the two {{sclass|Andrei Pervozvanny|battleship|0}} predreadnoughts were to defend the entrance to the Gulf of Finland.Halpern, p. 190 The ship's lattice masts were cut down in late 1914 and light topmasts were added. Torpedo nets were fitted in early 1915 and the ship's torpedoes were removed in January 1916. In late 1916, four {{convert|76|mm|0|adj=on|sp=us}} anti-aircraft guns were added.

Disgruntled sailors aboard Imperator Pavel I instigated the general mutiny of the Baltic Fleet in Helsinki on 16 March 1917, after they received word of the February Revolution in Saint Petersburg, and the ship was renamed Respublika (Republic) on 29 April. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk required the Soviets to evacuate their naval base at Helsinki in March 1918 or have their ships interned by newly independent Finland even though the Gulf of Finland was still frozen over. Respublika and her sister ship {{ship|Russian battleship|Andrei Pervozvanny||2}} led the second group of ships on 5 April and reached Kronstadt five days later in what became known as the 'Ice Voyage'. The ship was laid up in October 1918 for lack of manpower and she was scrapped beginning on 22 November 1923. Curiously, Respublika was not formally stricken from the Navy List until 21 November 1925.McLaughlin, pp. 188, 300–302 Two of the 8-inch turrets were installed at the coastal battery No. 9 (later No. 333) near Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) at thirties. Both turrets are scrapped today, but some parts remained inside the concrete shafts.

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• {{cite book|last=Halpern|first=Paul S.|title=A Naval History of World War I|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|date=1994|isbn=1-55750-352-4}}
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• {{cite book|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905|editor1-first=Roger|editor1-last=Chesneau|editor2-first=Eugene M.|editor2-last=Kolesnik |publisher=Mayflower Books|location=New York|year=1979|isbn=0-8317-0302-4|url-access=registration |url= https://archive.org/details/conwaysallworlds0000unse_l2e2|pages=170–217 |chapter=Russia |last1=Campbell |first1=N. J. M.|name-list-style=amp}}
• Melnikov, R. M. (2005, in Russian). Lineyny korabl "Imperator Pavel I" (1906–1925) (Линейный корабль "Император Павел I" (1906–1925)). Samara: ANO Istflot. {{ISBN|5-98830-013-8}}.

• [http://navsource.narod.ru/photos/01/033/index.html Brief history and photo gallery] {{in lang|ru}}
• [http://www.pomnivoinu.ru/card/291465/ Coastal battery № 9] {{in lang|ru}}

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