You done? Well then on to the battleships. I highly recommend listening to the story, it is hilarious, moronic, and downright tragic for the Russians involved. ![]() For the best historical context, I will have Jingles read the story of this voyage from the book: Great Naval Blunders by Geoffrey Regan. In 2013 Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu, announced plans to recommission Aurora as the flagship of the Russian Navy due to her historical and cultural importance.īefore I get to the battleships, all of the following ships (With the exception of the Gangut and Imperatrista Mariya classes) were part of the utterly ridiculous 18,000 mile journey of the Second and Third Pacific Squadrons in the Russo-Japanese War. Petersburg, very close to the WoWs developers home office. Her guns were used in the defense of Leningrad while Aurora herself lay in port at Oranienbaum being bombed and shelled, she sunk in harbor on September 30, 1941. She later fired the first (Blank) shot of the October Revolution, and was a training ship during the Interwar period. She has an extensive history being a part of the Second Pacific Squadron and sailing 18,000 miles to fight the Japanese in the Battle of Tsushima, only to lose spectacularly and flee to Manila and be interned by the US. (In spoiler due to being a massive photo) The famous Aurora, the symbolic flagship of the Military-Maritime Fleet of the Russian Federation.
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