Russian cruiser Oleg

Coordinates: 60°01′30″N 29°32′00″E / 60.02500°N 29.53333°E / 60.02500; 29.53333
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Oleg (ship)
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Oleg in April 1918
History
Russia
NameOleg (Russian: Олег)
Builder
Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg
Laid down6 July 1902
Launched14 August 1903
Commissioned24 June 1904
FateTorpedoed and sunk, 17 June 1919
General characteristics
Class and typeBogatyr-class protected cruiser
Displacement6,975 long tons (7,087 t)
Length134.19 m (440.3 ft)
Beam16.61 m (54.5 ft)
Draught6.61 m (21.7 ft)
Installed power17,000 ihp (13,000 kW)
Propulsion
Speed23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph)
Range2,100 nmi (3,890 km; 2,420 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement576 officers and crewmen
Armament
  • 12 × 6 in (150 mm) guns (2 twin turrets and 8 single guns), replaced by 5 in (130 mm) guns in subsequent refits for all ships
  • 12 ×
    11-pounder guns
  • 8 × 47 mm (1.9 in) guns
  • 2 × 37 mm (1.5 in) guns
  • 2 × 15 in (380 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor

Oleg (Russian: Олег) was the 4th and final Bogatyr-class protected cruiser built for the Imperial Russian Navy.

Operational history

Oleg was laid down at the

Russian Baltic Fleet on 24 June 1904. With the Russo-Japanese War
already in progress, she was seconded to the Russian Second Pacific Squadron.

Russo-Japanese War

Line drawing of the Bogatyr class showing armament layout.

Under the command of Admiral

Togo Heihachiro’s Combined Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima on 15 May 1905. During the battle, Oleg was damaged, but managed to escape and, together with the cruisers Aurora and Zhemchug reached the protection of the neutral port of Manila
, where she was interned to the end of the war.

After returning to the Russian Baltic Fleet, Oleg was refitted and her torpedo nets removed.[

Cronstadt. She was refloated on 4 October with assistance from the tugs Forwards, Meteor and Vladimir. She was taken in to Cronstadt for repairs, which were completed in December.[1]

World War I

At the start of World War I, Oleg was part of the Russian 1st Cruiser Brigade in the Baltic Sea. On 26 August 1914, together with sister ship Bogatyr, she covered minelaying operations in the Baltic, as well as laying mines herself. Mines laid by Oleg are credited with sinking the German light cruiser SMS Augsburg off Bornholm.

On 2 July 1915, Oleg participated in the Battle of Åland Islands during which she assisted in driving the German light cruiser SMS Albatross onto the beach.

In June 1916, the Russian Baltic Fleet launched a major offensive against German convoys off the Swedish cost, near Gotland.

Russian Revolution

During the

Bolshevik cause. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk required the Soviets to evacuate their 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. Oleg sailed to Kronstadt in what became known as the 'Ice Voyage'. In November 1918, Oleg and Bogatyr participated in the aborted invasion of Estonia by the Red Army. Oleg was torpedoed and sunk on the night of 17 June 1919 by Royal Navy speedboat CMB-4 commanded by Captain Augustus Agar
in an attack on the Red Navy facilities at Kronstadt. Parts of the ship were salvaged in 1919 and 1933, and the rest of hulk was raised and scrapped in 1938.

References

  1. ^ Chernyshev, Alexander Alekseevich (2012). Погибли без боя. Катастрофы русских кораблей XVIII–XX вв [They died without a fight. Catastrophes of Russian ships of the XVIII-XX centuries] (in Russian). Veche. Archived from the original on 2022-08-19. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
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