Pre-Dreadnought Preservation
The Gangut

The Gangut had a displacement of 7,000 tons, carried 33 guns of different caliber, and had a crew compliment of of 582. In the summer of 1897, the ship was broken by an uncharted rock and sank in six hours to a depth of 31 meters. A Swedish salvage operation in 1898-1899 recovered some of the wreck. It's location was subsequently forgotten and it's location became Finnish territorial waters. It was found again in 1988 by a group of Soviet and Polish youth and is now a diving attraction. Source: Diving Tours from ElinTours - Historical Review.

Hyrdo-acoustic image of the Gangut.
Source: Catalogue of Objects at the Baltic Sea Floor

Here is the Wikipedia entry for the Gangut.

A page in Russian with some terrific images & photos of the Gangut.

Two pages of dive photos from 2001 on the Gangut.

Here are some Russian pre-Dreadnought line drawing plans for battleships other than the Gangut.

If you come across any further information on the Internet about the Gangut's operational history or loss, please contact me at [email protected].

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