page_title: Ukrainian Navy
section_title: List of Ukrainian ships
hierarchical_section_title: Ukrainian Navy / Soviet period / Ukrainian People's Republic navy (1917–1921) / List of Ukrainian ships
caption_attribution_description: English: Память меркурия флаг украины 1917
context_page_description: The Ukrainian Naval Forces is the navy of Ukraine and part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
  It consists of five branches: surface forces, submarine forces, Navy aviation, coastal rocket-artillery and naval infantry. The Navy numbers 6,500 people. In 2007 and prior to the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea 15,470 people served the Ukrainian Navy.
  The headquarters of the Ukrainian Naval Forces was, until the 2014 Crimean crisis, located at Sevastopol in Crimea. The Naval Forces of Ukraine were highly affected by the Crimea Crisis as majority of their units were stationed there. Ships that did not escape or were not deployed at the time lowered their flags and were interned. Russia began a process of returning the vessels but stopped, citing inability of Ukraine to retake possession and continued violence against Russians in the Donbass. The ships that were returned were the older models of the fleet that were deemed obsolete. For example, Russia chose not to return the corvettes Ternopil and Lutsk, both of which are some of the newest ships of the Ukrainian fleet. However, none of the Ukrainian naval units retained were absorbed into the Russian Navy.
context_section_description: On October 17, 1917 the 2nd rank Captain Ye.Akimov was appointed the representative of the Central Council of Ukraine at the command of the Black Sea Fleet. In November 1917 in Sevastopol was established the Sahaidachny Sea Battalion (kurin) which on November 24, 1917 was sent to Kiev to extinguish Bolshevik uprisings and participated in the Kiev Arsenal January Uprising.
  On December 29, 1917 most of the Black Sea Fleet was taken over by Bolsheviks.
  Earlier in December 1917 the Black Seas Fleet squadron under Ukrainian flags led by the Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr III and included another cruiser and three destroyers participated in the evacuation of the 127th Infantry Division from Trabzon back to Ukraine.
  Baltic Fleet
  Soviet cruiser Krasnyi Krym (October 12, 1917)
  Russian destroyer Ukraina (October 12, 1917)
  Russian destroyer Haidamak (October 12, 1917)
  Black Sea Fleet
  Russian battleship Georgii Pobedonosets (November 9, 1917)
  Russian cruiser Pamiat Merkuria (1907) (November 12, 1917)
  Russian destroyer Zorkiy (November 12, 1917)
  Russian destroyer Zvonkiy (November 12, 1917)
  Russian Battleship Volya (previously Imperator Aleksandr III) (November 22, 1917)
  Russian battleship Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya
caption: Blue and yellow flag on cruiser Pamiat Merkuria, Nov 1917
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